{"id":1024,"date":"2016-07-29T14:27:34","date_gmt":"2016-07-29T14:27:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nlt.ie\/?p=1024"},"modified":"2020-07-24T19:55:35","modified_gmt":"2020-07-24T19:55:35","slug":"touchable-untouchables","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nlt.ie\/?p=1024","title":{"rendered":"Touchable untouchables?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We count it a joy and privilege to serve and envision some of the poorest people on the Earth.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1022\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1022\" style=\"width: 2048px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/nlt.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_3811.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1022 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/nlt.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_3811.jpg\" alt=\"Dalit children\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1536\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nlt.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_3811.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.nlt.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_3811-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nlt.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_3811-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.nlt.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_3811-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1022\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: S Winterburn \u00a9 NLT Ireland<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Musha children seen above are part of a dalit community of \u00a0&#8216;untouchables&#8217; in the Terai of Nepal, that are marginalised by the wider community because of being born into a low caste.<\/p>\n<p>They have no land, and earn their living working for others, earning perhaps a euro a day, when there is work.<\/p>\n<p>Help us help them, with income generation, education, health, sanitation and water projects. Lets give them hope and a dream for their lives.<\/p>\n<p>See details of our<a href=\"http:\/\/nlt.ie\/?page_id=182\"> Village Alive<\/a> project.<\/p>\n<p>Contact: <a href=\"mailto:info@nlt.ie\">info@nlt.ie<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We count it a joy and privilege to serve and envision some of the poorest people on the Earth. The Musha children seen above are part of a dalit community of \u00a0&#8216;untouchables&#8217; in the Terai of Nepal, that are marginalised by the wider community because of being born into a low caste. They have no &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nlt.ie\/?p=1024\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Touchable untouchables?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,9,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-development","category-fundraising","category-stigma"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nlt.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nlt.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nlt.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nlt.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nlt.ie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1024"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.nlt.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2122,"href":"https:\/\/www.nlt.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024\/revisions\/2122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nlt.ie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nlt.ie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nlt.ie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}