{"id":35156,"date":"2004-11-02T10:25:04","date_gmt":"2004-11-02T02:25:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/2004\/11\/02\/british-ball-raises-charity-funds\/"},"modified":"2004-11-02T10:25:04","modified_gmt":"2004-11-02T02:25:04","slug":"british-ball-raises-charity-funds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/2004\/11\/02\/35156\/","title":{"rendered":"British Ball Raises Charity Funds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"165\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/images\/20041103-kerrybj-britishball.gif\" width=\"114\" align=\"right\">On Friday October 30, the British Ball Beijing 2004 was held&amp;nbsp; at the Grand Ballroom of Shangri-La's Kerry Centre Hotel. It was a fine evening of great entertainment, wining and dining, lucky draws and dancing highlighted with charitable donations to the Care for Children programme.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Seen here is Mr.Darren Gearing, chairman of British Ball Committee, with the committee members on the stage. <\/p>\n<p>Care for Children was established in 1998 to: relieve hardship, distress and sickness in abandoned and orphaned children in China by the introduction of strategic initiatives in child care practice, at the request of, and in cooperation with, the Chinese national and local authorities. <\/p>\n<p>Care for Children believes that the best environment for most children to grow and develop is the family. Accordingly the group works with the Chinese National Government and local governments to establish quality foster care programmes that put the needs of children first, Chinese children in Chinese families in China. Care for Children also seeks to make available to the Chinese Government the best experience and ideas of the West for the development of social welfare programmes and facilities that serve the needs of orphans, disabled children and others in need.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday October 30, the British Ball Beijing 2004 was held&amp;nbsp; at the Grand Ballroom of Shangri-La's Kerry Centre Hotel. It was a fine evening of great entertainment, wining and dining, lucky draws and dancing highlighted with charitable donations to the Care for Children programme.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12723],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}