{"id":2946,"date":"2018-10-06T06:27:04","date_gmt":"2018-10-06T06:27:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/how-coding-is-helping-young-gazans-find-work\/"},"modified":"2018-10-06T06:27:04","modified_gmt":"2018-10-06T06:27:04","slug":"how-coding-is-helping-young-gazans-find-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/how-coding-is-helping-young-gazans-find-work\/","title":{"rendered":"How coding is helping young Gazans find work"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div>\n<p>Many young Gazans are university graduates, and yet they face dire work prospects. <\/p>\n<p>Over a decade ago, a blockade of the Gaza Strip by Israel and Egypt was tightened, when the militant group, Hamas, took full control. <\/p>\n<p>Today, the local economy is broken and it\u2019s difficult to get a permit to travel. <\/p>\n<p>But Palestinians are now finding freelance work with companies in the UK and the US. <\/p>\n<p>Gaza Sky Geeks, a tech hub started by Google and the NGO, Mercy Corps, teaches coding and has an outsourcing agency. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-middle-east-45758262\">Source<\/a> by <a href=\"\">[author_name]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many young Gazans are university graduates, and yet they face dire work prospects. Over a decade ago, a blockade of the Gaza Strip by Israel and Egypt was tightened, when the militant group, Hamas, took full control. Today, the local economy is broken and it\u2019s difficult to get a permit to travel. But Palestinians are &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":2947,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2946\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}