{"id":17758,"date":"2025-03-14T21:35:17","date_gmt":"2025-03-14T20:35:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kamboo-project.ngo\/?p=17758"},"modified":"2025-03-14T21:35:17","modified_gmt":"2025-03-14T20:35:17","slug":"happy-new-year-in-the-kamboo-project-spirit-of-mindfulness-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kamboo-project.ngo\/en\/happy-new-year-in-the-kamboo-project-spirit-of-mindfulness-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Is 80 years too old for a Kamboo volunteer?  &#8220;Not at all&#8221; says Martin Forderkunz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Retiree volunteer: At the age of 80, he traveled to Cambodia for an aid organization. Aid organizations abroad typically employ young people as volunteers. Martin Forderkunz from Toffen is an exception. 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Aid organizations abroad typically employ young people as volunteers. Martin Forderkunz from Toffen is an exception. Two Swiss newspapers have reported about Martin&#8217;s three months volunteership with Kamboo Project. https:\/\/kamboo-project.ngo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Berner-Landbote-05.03.2025.pdf https:\/\/kamboo-project.ngo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Berner-Zeitung-12.03.2025.pdf<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17760,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog-en"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kamboo-project.ngo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kamboo-project.ngo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kamboo-project.ngo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kamboo-project.ngo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kamboo-project.ngo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17758"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kamboo-project.ngo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17770,"href":"https:\/\/kamboo-project.ngo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17758\/revisions\/17770"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kamboo-project.ngo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kamboo-project.ngo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kamboo-project.ngo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kamboo-project.ngo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}