{"id":3803,"date":"2009-05-11T15:30:47","date_gmt":"2009-05-11T15:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2009\/05\/11\/award-for-hero-mohammed\/"},"modified":"2016-01-07T11:34:48","modified_gmt":"2016-01-07T11:34:48","slug":"award-for-hero-mohammed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2009\/05\/11\/award-for-hero-mohammed\/","title":{"rendered":"Award for hero Mohammed"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3>Youngster praised for 999 call saved mums life<\/h3>\n<div><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"232\" alt=\"\" hspace=\"10\" width=\"232\" align=\"right\" vspace=\"3\" src=\"http:\/\/theasiantoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/MohammedCalieb_232x180.jpg\"\/>A YOUNG Leicester boy has been hailed a hero after dialling 999 when his mum collapsed at the family home.<\/strong> <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Nine-year-old Mohammed Chelbi was presented with a Young Hero Award by officers from Welford Road local policing unit following his brave actions. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Mohammed raced into action after his mum, Georgina, suffered an epileptic fit at the family home Brookfield Rise, Saffron Lane. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>She fell, hit her head and lost consciousness as Mohammed and his four younger brothers looked on helplessly. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Mohammed raced to the telephone, dialled 999 and waited with his brothers until an ambulance arrived. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>The brave youngster even called his auntie to tell her what had happened. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Police and paramedics were so impressed by Mohammed&#8217;s actions that they presented him with a Young Hero Award in front of his classmates at Marriott Road Primary School in Leicester.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Mum Georgina said she was \u201cso proud\u201d of her young son. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>\u201cHe is a real gift from god. I am so proud of him and so thankful that he was there that morning,\u201d she said. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>\u201cHe remained calm, called for an ambulance, looked after his brothers and even rang my sister to let her know what had happened. I cried when he was handed the award. He really deserves it.\u201d<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>PC Dan Saunders from the Saffron Lane Estate neighbourhood team added: \u201cIt is great to see a young member of the community acting in such a responsible way. Mohammed is a credit to his mum, the school and the local community.\u201d<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<p>&#13;\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Youngster praised for 999 call saved mums life A YOUNG Leicester boy has been hailed a hero after dialling 999 when his mum collapsed at the family home. &#13; Nine-year-old Mohammed Chelbi was presented with a Young Hero Award by officers from Welford Road local policing unit following his brave actions. &#13; Mohammed raced into [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3803","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=3803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3803\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}