{"id":861,"date":"2015-05-05T18:50:11","date_gmt":"2015-05-05T18:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shcj.org\/american\/?p=861"},"modified":"2015-07-28T16:35:07","modified_gmt":"2015-07-28T16:35:07","slug":"holy-child-volunteers-return-to-the-dominican-republic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shcj.org\/american\/holy-child-volunteers-return-to-the-dominican-republic\/","title":{"rendered":"Volunteers Return to the Dominican Republic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cindy and Greg Platko are Holy Child Associates from North Carolina who spent a year as <a href=\"http:\/\/holychildvolunteers.org\">Holy Child Volunteers<\/a> in 2007-08 in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shcj.org\/american\/how-we-serve\/ministries\/american-ministry\/holy-child-elementary-school-and-our-lady-of-good-counsel-dispensary\/\">Batey Lecheria in the Dominican Republic<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shcj.org\/american\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/05\/IMG_2743.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.shcj.org\/american\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/05\/IMG_2743-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_2743\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/225;\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>The couple usually returns twice a year to help in the batey, which they did in April 2015. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.domrepadventure.blogspot.com\/\">Read their blog post<\/a> from the Platko&#8217;s most recent visit.<\/p>\n<p>Current volunteer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shcj.org\/american\/reflection-on-serving-by-a-holy-child-volunteer\/\">Gabby Mejia has also written<\/a> about her experiences volunteering there.<\/p>\n<p>You can <a href=\"http:\/\/holychildvolunteers.org\/application\/\">apply<\/a> to be a Holy Child Volunteer in the Dominican Republic.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cindy and Greg Platko are Holy Child Associates from North Carolina who spent a year as Holy Child Volunteers in 2007-08 in Batey Lecheria in the Dominican Republic. The couple usually returns twice a year to help in the batey, which they did in April 2015. Read their blog post from the Platko&#8217;s most recent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":385,"featured_media":864,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shcj.org\/american\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shcj.org\/american\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shcj.org\/american\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shcj.org\/american\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/385"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shcj.org\/american\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shcj.org\/american\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/861\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shcj.org\/american\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shcj.org\/american\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shcj.org\/american\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shcj.org\/american\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}