{"id":1741,"date":"2023-03-09T13:51:14","date_gmt":"2023-03-09T12:51:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.servethecityleuven.be\/?p=1741"},"modified":"2025-08-19T08:42:34","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T06:42:34","slug":"ayads-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.servethecityleuven.be\/nl\/2023\/03\/09\/ayads-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Ayad&#8217;s story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Volunteering work is about giving in the first place, it enables me to give something back to the community that has given me a lot of opportunities.<br \/>\nIt has also given me a lot to be grateful for because it allowed me to meet of people from different cultures and backgrounds, also people outside my inner circle, for example a homeless man or a woman struggling with loneliness which made realize that we have different stories and that we can learn from each other by helping each other.<br \/>\nVolunteering at STC in Leuven has given me the ability to look at myself from another perspective. It made me realize that I have a lot to be grateful for and volunteering has taught me how to work together with others which at the same time, expanding my circle of friends and acquaintances.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2013 Ayad, Vol<\/strong><strong>unteer, Serve the City<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1744\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.servethecity.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2023\/03\/3-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.servethecity.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2023\/03\/3-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.servethecity.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2023\/03\/3-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.servethecity.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2023\/03\/3-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.servethecity.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2023\/03\/3-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/cdn.servethecity.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2023\/03\/3-800x600.jpg 800w, https:\/\/cdn.servethecity.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2023\/03\/3.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1746\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.servethecity.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2023\/03\/whatsapp-image-2022-05-22-at-12.58.11-am-300x225.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.servethecity.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2023\/03\/whatsapp-image-2022-05-22-at-12.58.11-am-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.servethecity.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2023\/03\/whatsapp-image-2022-05-22-at-12.58.11-am-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.servethecity.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2023\/03\/whatsapp-image-2022-05-22-at-12.58.11-am-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.servethecity.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2023\/03\/whatsapp-image-2022-05-22-at-12.58.11-am-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/cdn.servethecity.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2023\/03\/whatsapp-image-2022-05-22-at-12.58.11-am-800x600.jpeg 800w, https:\/\/cdn.servethecity.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2023\/03\/whatsapp-image-2022-05-22-at-12.58.11-am.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Volunteering work is about giving in the first place, it enables me to give something back to the community that has given me a lot of opportunities. It has also given me a lot to be grateful for because it allowed me to meet of people from different cultures and backgrounds, also people outside my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":135,"featured_media":1748,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.servethecityleuven.be\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.servethecityleuven.be\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.servethecityleuven.be\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.servethecityleuven.be\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/135"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.servethecityleuven.be\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1741"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.servethecityleuven.be\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1750,"href":"https:\/\/www.servethecityleuven.be\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1741\/revisions\/1750"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.servethecityleuven.be\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.servethecityleuven.be\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.servethecityleuven.be\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.servethecityleuven.be\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}