{"id":19814,"date":"2016-12-23T11:06:25","date_gmt":"2016-12-23T11:06:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/?p=19814"},"modified":"2016-12-23T11:10:22","modified_gmt":"2016-12-23T11:10:22","slug":"sikh-muslims-unite-serve-christmas-curry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2016\/12\/23\/sikh-muslims-unite-serve-christmas-curry\/","title":{"rendered":"Sikh &#038; Muslims unite to serve Christmas Curry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As preparations are being made for Christmas across the world, one owner\u00a0 Mr Abul Azad of \u00a0Roopnogar in Plymouth U.K\u00a0is preparing a Christmas curry for those who are less fortunate due to their circumstances.<\/p>\n<p>Abul Azad has been working with the city&#8217;s only Sikh Councillor Chaz Singh who is a prominent person in the Asian community and well known to the Bangladeshi community in Plymouth. Abul approached Cllr Singh about preparing a lunch just before Christmas.<\/p>\n<p>Cllr Singh has worked extensively in the community and arranged for Abul to serve a lunch to residents and staff at the George House based in Plymouth. George House is for those who are vulnerable and provides supported housing for homeless people.<\/p>\n<p>Owner of the Roopnogar Takeaway Mr Azad said &#8216;in the name of humanity it is my duty to help those in less fortunate circumstances and to encourage others to do as well. I&#8217;d like to thank Cllr Chaz Singh for making this happen and educating me in how we can all live, work and prosper in a multi-faith Plymouth&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Nicola Greenfield of Bournemouth Churches Housing Association and Area Manager Devon, Somerset and Avon at George House said &#8216;\u00a0\u2018It was a pleasure to welcome the wonderful food prepared by Roopnogar Indian Restaurant into George House Homeless Hostel. The Christmas Curries were a real treat for people who find themselves without a home at this time of year. People living at the hostel enjoyed the delicious food so much that they prepared a card especially to say thank you. We hope we have an opportunity to welcome Roopnogar again in the future\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Chaz Singh said &#8216;its great to see communities come together at this time of year and able to show how we can care and share for each other&#8217;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As preparations are being made for Christmas across the world, one owner\u00a0 Mr Abul Azad of \u00a0Roopnogar in Plymouth U.K\u00a0is preparing a Christmas curry for those who are less fortunate due to their circumstances. Abul Azad has been working with the city&#8217;s only Sikh Councillor Chaz Singh who is a prominent person in the Asian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19815,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,3,112],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national-news","category-news","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19814\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}