{"id":4011,"date":"2025-06-22T09:57:28","date_gmt":"2025-06-22T09:57:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/helpinghandsceylon.org\/?p=4011"},"modified":"2025-12-13T10:16:24","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T10:16:24","slug":"healthy-minds-project-1st-episode-at-sirimavo-bandaranaike-childrens-hospital-peradeniya-kandy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helpinghandsceylon.org\/?p=4011","title":{"rendered":"Healthy Minds Project \u2013 1st Episode at Sirimavo Bandaranaike Children\u2019s hospital Peradeniya, Kandy"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"4011\" class=\"elementor elementor-4011\" data-elementor-settings=\"{&quot;ha_cmc_init_switcher&quot;:&quot;no&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-ada60fc e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"ada60fc\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;_ha_eqh_enable&quot;:false}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div 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srcset=\"https:\/\/helpinghandsceylon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/513535573_1029069412705198_2530426673526015620_n.jpg 720w, https:\/\/helpinghandsceylon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/513535573_1029069412705198_2530426673526015620_n-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/helpinghandsceylon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/513535573_1029069412705198_2530426673526015620_n-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5d7fcdf e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"5d7fcdf\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;_ha_eqh_enable&quot;:false}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f474adb elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"f474adb\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Together, we 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It was a fruitful and impactful day, made vibrant with the contribution of many professionals and supporters: Nutritional Awareness by Dr. Mrs. Jananie Santhursen and Consultant Dr. Lasika Uyanege, who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4035,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[31,32,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-awareness-program","category-healthy-minds","category-projects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helpinghandsceylon.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helpinghandsceylon.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helpinghandsceylon.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helpinghandsceylon.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helpinghandsceylon.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4011"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/helpinghandsceylon.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4047,"href":"https:\/\/helpinghandsceylon.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4011\/revisions\/4047"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helpinghandsceylon.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helpinghandsceylon.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helpinghandsceylon.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helpinghandsceylon.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}