{"id":2744,"date":"2025-05-12T20:10:51","date_gmt":"2025-05-12T08:10:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/reliefaid2023.local\/?post_type=our_people&#038;p=2744"},"modified":"2026-04-16T14:57:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T02:57:11","slug":"mike-seawright","status":"publish","type":"our_people","link":"https:\/\/reliefaid.ca\/fr\/our_people\/mike-seawright\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Seawright"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Since leaving the corporate world behind over two decades ago, Mike has been delivering humanitarian assistance to families living in the world\u2019s conflict zones. He has provided medical aid in Iraq, Yemen, Sudan, South Sudan and Pakistan, economic development and energy projects in Afghanistan and most recently emergency humanitarian aid, leading multiple interventions in Syria, Afghanistan and Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Frustrated that not enough was being done to help families affected by war and conflict Mike founded ReliefAid. With a simple vision of helping families who had no one else to turn to, ReliefAid has delivered life-saving aid to over 1.6 million people in war-torn Gaza, Syria, Lebanon Afghanistan, and Ukraine, and they are not stopping there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While his work surrounds him in war and conflict Mike counts himself lucky to bear witness to what he calls \u201cthe very best of humanity\u201d.&nbsp; When not travelling to oversee ReliefAid\u2019s international interventions he lives in Auckland with his family.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Depuis qu\u2019il a quitt\u00e9 le monde des affaires il y a plus de 17 ans, Mike Seawright apporte une aide humanitaire aux familles vivant dans les zones de conflit du monde. Il a fourni une aide m\u00e9dicale en Irak, au Y\u00e9men, au Soudan, au Soudan du Sud et au Pakistan, des projets de d\u00e9veloppement \u00e9conomique et \u00e9nerg\u00e9tiques en Afghanistan et, plus r\u00e9cemment, une aide humanitaire d\u2019urgence, menant plusieurs interventions en Syrie, en Afghanistan et en Ukraine.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2900,"menu_order":1,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,47,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2744","our_people","type-our_people","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-board-member","category-canadian-board","category-standard-page","infinite-scroll-item"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reliefaid.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/our_people\/2744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reliefaid.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/our_people"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reliefaid.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/our_people"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reliefaid.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reliefaid.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/our_people\/2744\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reliefaid.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reliefaid.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reliefaid.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reliefaid.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}