{"id":1627,"date":"2019-09-24T22:09:58","date_gmt":"2019-09-24T22:09:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nlt.ie\/?p=1627"},"modified":"2020-07-24T18:51:58","modified_gmt":"2020-07-24T18:51:58","slug":"visiting-nlts-village-alive-programme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nlt.ie\/?p=1627","title":{"rendered":"Visiting the Village Alive Programme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NLT supports the <a href=\"http:\/\/nlt.ie\/?page_id=182\">Village Alive Programme<\/a> which empowers some of the poorest, most disadvantaged people suffering from leprosy and other debilitating conditions, to transform their own lives and also spearhead improvements to the whole village. In this way, the most rejected people become community leaders.<\/p>\n<p>Day 1 of NLT Irelands visit to Nepal, September 2019.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1628\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1628\" style=\"width: 864px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/nlt.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Sarita_-Gourishanker1164-LoRes.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1628\" src=\"http:\/\/nlt.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Sarita_-Gourishanker1164-LoRes.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"864\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nlt.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Sarita_-Gourishanker1164-LoRes.jpeg 864w, https:\/\/www.nlt.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Sarita_-Gourishanker1164-LoRes-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.nlt.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Sarita_-Gourishanker1164-LoRes-768x512.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1628\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sarita, with her mushrooms, in Gourishanker Village<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">This is Sarita from Gourishanker Village, Nepal. Because of the Women&#8217;s Savings Group set up by the Village Alive Programme in Gourishanker, Sarita received training to farm mushrooms. She is growing the seeds in a dark room of her hut and in a few months can start selling them . This will provide her with income to support her family.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<figure id=\"attachment_1647\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1647\" style=\"width: 1008px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/nlt.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Gourishanker-1182-LoRes-with-text.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1647\" src=\"http:\/\/nlt.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Gourishanker-1182-LoRes-with-text.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1008\" height=\"542\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nlt.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Gourishanker-1182-LoRes-with-text.jpg 1008w, https:\/\/www.nlt.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Gourishanker-1182-LoRes-with-text-300x161.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nlt.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Gourishanker-1182-LoRes-with-text-768x413.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1647\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Water now much more accessible in Gourishanker<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The Village Alive Programme members in Gourishanker have also installed 2 new water pumps in the village, thus making water much more accessible.\u00a0 Our Village Alive Programme is part funded by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishaid.ie\/\">Irish Aid<\/a><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<figure id=\"attachment_1629\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1629\" style=\"width: 432px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/nlt.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Sarita_Gourishanker-5224-LoRes.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1629\" src=\"http:\/\/nlt.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Sarita_Gourishanker-5224-LoRes.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"432\" height=\"625\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nlt.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Sarita_Gourishanker-5224-LoRes.jpg 432w, https:\/\/www.nlt.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Sarita_Gourishanker-5224-LoRes-207x300.jpg 207w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 432px) 100vw, 432px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1629\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">New water pump in Gourishanker Village. September 2019. Above photos: R .Thomas \u00a9 NLT Ireland 2019<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NLT supports the Village Alive Programme which empowers some of the poorest, most disadvantaged people suffering from leprosy and other debilitating conditions, to transform their own lives and also spearhead improvements to the whole village. In this way, the most rejected people become community leaders. Day 1 of NLT Irelands visit to Nepal, September 2019. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nlt.ie\/?p=1627\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Visiting the Village Alive Programme&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nlt.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1627","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=1627"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.nlt.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2078,"href":"https:\/\/www.nlt.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1627\/revisions\/2078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nlt.ie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nlt.ie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nlt.ie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}