{"id":237737,"date":"2022-05-02T11:00:51","date_gmt":"2022-05-02T11:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/the-people-making-a-difference-the-mum-giving-free-phones-and-games-to-young-people-in-need"},"modified":"2022-05-02T11:00:51","modified_gmt":"2022-05-02T11:00:51","slug":"the-people-making-a-difference-the-mum-giving-free-phones-and-games-to-young-people-in-need","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/the-people-making-a-difference-the-mum-giving-free-phones-and-games-to-young-people-in-need","title":{"rendered":"The people making a difference &#8211; the mum giving free phones and games to young people in need"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kayla Ellis at home in Cardiff with donated items for her &#8216;charity shop&#8217;.Kayla Ellis&#8217;s children came home from school recently and asked their mother what was going on: the hallway was full of bags of clothing, trainers and toys. Ellis remembers her own mother also eyeing the chaos &#8211; and telling her she&#8217;d bitten off more than she could chew. Her mother was referring to the unofficial charity shop that Ellis has installed in her house. Ellis, a 31-year-old gardener from Cardiff, says: &#8220;I&#8217;ve got some builders coming next week to give me a quote to build a shed in the garden, so I can store the rest of the stuff in there.&#8221; Ellis did not intend to create a charity shop in her house; it just sort of happened. (Technically, it&#8217;s not a charity shop, as all items are free, but locals call it that and it has caught on.) The idea started when her son was picked on<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kayla Ellis&#8217;s children came home from school recently and asked their mother what was going on: the hallway was full of bags of clothing, trainers and toys. Ellis remembers her<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-237737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237737\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}