{"id":1068,"date":"2016-10-17T11:30:25","date_gmt":"2016-10-17T11:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nlt.ie\/?p=1068"},"modified":"2020-07-24T19:24:54","modified_gmt":"2020-07-24T19:24:54","slug":"hope-its-not-just-a-buzzword","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nlt.ie\/?p=1068","title":{"rendered":"HOPE: It\u2019s not just a buzzword"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Article and photos by Sarah Winterburn 2016.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nlt.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/hope-is-not-a-buzzword.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1069\" src=\"http:\/\/nlt.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/hope-is-not-a-buzzword.jpeg\" alt=\"hope-is-not-a-buzzword\" width=\"750\" height=\"563\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nlt.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/hope-is-not-a-buzzword.jpeg 750w, https:\/\/www.nlt.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/hope-is-not-a-buzzword-300x225.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 706px) 89vw, (max-width: 767px) 82vw, 740px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Late one evening in July, I found myself descending rapidly in an airplane over the Kathmandu valley. The city looked totally unlike any I had seen before. Walking out onto the heated street, the life of the place struck me. People everywhere. No surface seemed untouched. As I travelled south, rural farmland replaced crowded cityscape \u2013 rice paddies and dirt tracks.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WELCOME TO NEPAL<\/strong><br \/>\nHow did I end up here? After a lifetime of hearing stories about Nepal from my parents, who spent the first years of their married lives there, I had been given the opportunity to visit. I would be staying at Lalgadh Hospital \u2013 the busiest leprosy hospital in the world \u2013 set up by Nepal Leprosy Trust (NLT), a Christian organisation inspired by Jesus\u2019 compassion to serve the poor and sick. Their aim is to empower those affected by leprosy and other disadvantaged people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Article and photos by Sarah Winterburn 2016. Late one evening in July, I found myself descending rapidly in an airplane over the Kathmandu valley. The city looked totally unlike any I had seen before. Walking out onto the heated street, the life of the place struck me. People everywhere. No surface seemed untouched. As I &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nlt.ie\/?p=1068\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;HOPE: It\u2019s not just a buzzword&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nlt.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1068","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=1068"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.nlt.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2104,"href":"https:\/\/www.nlt.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1068\/revisions\/2104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nlt.ie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nlt.ie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nlt.ie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}