{"id":71575,"date":"2017-11-13T14:41:16","date_gmt":"2017-11-13T21:41:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=71575"},"modified":"2017-11-13T14:41:16","modified_gmt":"2017-11-13T21:41:16","slug":"residents-of-perbal-mistake-sri-lankan-volunteers-for-migrants-call-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2017\/11\/13\/residents-of-perbal-mistake-sri-lankan-volunteers-for-migrants-call-police\/","title":{"rendered":"Residents of Perb\u00e1l mistake Sri Lankan volunteers for migrants, call police"},"content":{"rendered":"

Courtesy The Budapest Beacon<\/a><\/h2>\n

Police were called in the Pest County town of Perb\u00e1l on Friday after local residents spotted three students from Sri Lanka and mistook them for illegal migrants,\u00a0mno.hu reports<\/a>. The three young Sri Lankans had come to work as volunteers in a home for injured and mentally disabled people in Perb\u00e1l, and had scarcely been in Hungary one day before attracting police attention.<\/p>\n

According to a\u00a0Facebook post<\/a>\u00a0from a resident, the students, who have dark hair and skin, were spotted waiting for a bus to Budapest when police were called. The students are participating in a six-week volunteer program under the auspices of AIESEC, a UN-related global youth non-profit, where they assist at the\u00a0Tov\u00e1bb \u00c9lni Egyes\u00fclet<\/em>\u00a0(Live Longer Association), a Perb\u00e1l home for injured and disabled children and adults.<\/p>\n

\"Residents
\nHome for families with injured or disabled children in Perb\u00e1l | Photo: Facebook\/Tov\u00e1bb \u00c9lni Egyes\u00fclet<\/p>\n

In the local man\u2019s Facebook post, he assures everyone that they are not migrants. They have passports, visas, student cards and plane tickets back home. So you don\u2019t have to call the police again, once was enough for them.\u201d<\/p>\n

AIESEC also commented on the incident, writing that They came here to work as volunteers without pay with injured children and adults for the benefit of Hungarian society. They aren\u2019t doing any harm, but rather giving to us. They aren\u2019t taking our opportunities but creating them for the people they work with.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Courtesy The Budapest Beacon Police were called in the Pest County town of Perb\u00e1l on Friday after local residents spotted three students from Sri Lanka and mistook them for illegal migrants,\u00a0mno.hu reports. The three young Sri Lankans had come to work as volunteers in a home for injured and mentally disabled people in Perb\u00e1l, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71575\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}