{"id":30658,"date":"2023-11-23T15:30:09","date_gmt":"2023-11-23T15:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/?p=30658"},"modified":"2023-11-23T15:30:09","modified_gmt":"2023-11-23T15:30:09","slug":"thanksgiving-day-apag-distributes-halal-turkeys-among-needy-families","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/30658","title":{"rendered":"Thanksgiving Day: APAG distributes Halal Turkeys among needy families"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>New York: As the annual Thanksgiving Day is being celebrated across the United States today,\u00a0 the American-Pakistani Advocacy Group (APAG) distributed more than three hundred halal turkeys amongst needy families in New York.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/people.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-30661\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/people-300x180.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/people-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/people-768x460.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/people.jpg 985w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>APAG set up its stalls in New York on Thanksgiving Day, the festival of sharing happiness as the organization distributed Halal turkey along with fresh fruits, vegetables, and essential food items among more than three hundred families.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/doosra-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-30665\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/doosra-300x167.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"167\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/doosra-300x167.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/doosra-scaled.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/doosra-768x429.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Speaking on the occasion, Assemblyman <em>David Weprin<\/em> and Queens Borough President Donovan Richards said, &#8220;Be it tough times or any festival, we have always seen APAG bring joy to the community.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/david-wbriub-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-30662\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/david-wbriub-300x166.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"166\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/david-wbriub-300x166.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/david-wbriub-scaled.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/david-wbriub-768x425.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There were a large number of needy people outside the stalls of APAG, on this occasion.<\/p>\n<p>APAG President Ali Rashid thanked everyone and said that he would continue all such activities in the future.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/ali-rashid-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-30663\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/ali-rashid-300x204.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"204\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/ali-rashid-300x204.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/ali-rashid-scaled.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/ali-rashid-768x522.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/ali-rashid-220x150.jpg 220w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Volunteers of the American-Pakistani Advocacy Group also actively participated in the Thanksgiving Day event.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/tyurkey-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-30664\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/tyurkey-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/tyurkey-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/tyurkey-scaled.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/tyurkey-768x430.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/tyurkey-390x220.jpg 390w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" 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APAG set up its stalls in New York on Thanksgiving Day, the festival of sharing happiness as the organization distributed Halal turkey [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":30659,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1469,31,32,1378,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-york","category-news","category-pakistan","category-us","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30658"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30666,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30658\/revisions\/30666"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}