{"id":15214,"date":"2016-10-18T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-10-18T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2016\/10\/18\/sewa-day-2016-international-day-of-volunteering-celebrated-across-usa\/"},"modified":"2016-10-18T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-10-18T12:00:00","slug":"sewa-day-2016-international-day-of-volunteering-celebrated-across-usa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2016\/10\/18\/sewa-day-2016-international-day-of-volunteering-celebrated-across-usa\/","title":{"rendered":"Sewa Day 2016: International Day of Volunteering Celebrated Across USA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sewausa.org\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>HOUSTON, TEXAS, October 17, 2016 (Press Release Sewa International): Sewa Day, a day of pure voluntary selfless service, was celebrated by the Hindu-American community for the 6th successive year with community service projects at 32 locations across the US. Hundreds of volunteers across different age-groups and backgrounds including youth and children from Sewa International and partner organizations came together between September 11 and October 16 and worked on a variety of activities to make a difference in their communities.<\/p>\n<p>Sewa Day is supported worldwide by three guiding principles: 1. Serve humanity to relieve hardship, 2. Bring a little joy to others, and 3. Help to sustain the environment. This year saw participation from new states and cities, a 60% increase in the number of nationwide events, and increased diversity of projects from feeding the homeless and tree planting to free immigration service sessions, and even a FIRST Robotics-connected STEM camp.<\/p>\n<p>A photo album of Sewa Day 2016 activities in the USA is available here: https:\/\/goo.gl\/photos\/jnVcKSjtnXETCuUY7<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source HOUSTON, TEXAS, October 17, 2016 (Press Release Sewa International): Sewa Day, a day of pure voluntary selfless service, was,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15214\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}