{"id":74,"date":"2020-05-20T09:22:28","date_gmt":"2020-05-20T09:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hannesschmid.com\/?page_id=74"},"modified":"2025-05-13T14:25:50","modified_gmt":"2025-05-13T14:25:50","slug":"charity","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/hannesschmid.com\/index.php\/charity\/","title":{"rendered":"Philantrophy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">Since 2012, Hannes has been helping children and families in Cambodia, one of the poorest countries in the world, through the non-profit association <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smilinggecko.ch\">Smiling Gecko<\/a>. In recognition of his exemplary commitment to the people of the slums of Phnom Penh, he was honoured with a Honorary Doctorate in April 2018 by the University of Zurich. Much of his time is now spent on building and shaping sustainable possibilities for those in need.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:100%\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-style-default has-small-font-size is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I came to Cambodia years ago, I was upset to witness the realities of the poorest families here. Unable to understand and accept the reasons for such poverty, oft within a short distance from 5 star hotels and booming businesses, I started on a journey which I had never imagined to be so moving for me, a journey into a forgotten world. The disparity between the two worlds I live in has left different impacts on me. One led to the creation of Smiling Gecko, an NGO which you could read more about at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smilinggecko.ch\">smilinggecko.ch<\/a>.<\/p>\n<cite>Hannes Schmid<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since 2012, Hannes has been helping children and families in Cambodia, one of the poorest countries in the world, through the non-profit association Smiling Gecko. In recognition of his exemplary commitment to the people of the slums of Phnom Penh, he was honoured with a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hannesschmid.com\/index.php\/charity\/\" class=\"more-link\"><span>Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Philantrophy<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-74","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hannesschmid.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/74","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hannesschmid.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hannesschmid.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hannesschmid.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hannesschmid.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/hannesschmid.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/74\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1041,"href":"https:\/\/hannesschmid.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/74\/revisions\/1041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hannesschmid.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}