{"id":1633,"date":"2019-09-26T09:50:11","date_gmt":"2019-09-26T09:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nlt.ie\/?p=1633"},"modified":"2020-07-24T18:51:32","modified_gmt":"2020-07-24T18:51:32","slug":"irish-field-trip-2019-to-lalgadh-and-its-surrounding-villages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nlt.ie\/?p=1633","title":{"rendered":"Irish trip\u00a0to Lalgadh 2019 and its surrounding villages"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Irish field trip 2019\u00a0 to Lalgadh and its surrounding villages &#8211; Day 2. The <a href=\"http:\/\/nlt.ie\/?page_id=182\">Village Alive Programme<\/a> is alive and well in Itarharwa where government officials describe a 50% improvement in the state of the village. Hygiene standards drastically rose as a personal cleaning programme was implemented. Women and men are also starting small businesses in mushroom farming, pig keeping and goat rearing. One very happy headmistress describes school attendance increasing by fifty pupils !<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1635\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1635\" style=\"width: 473px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/nlt.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Itarharwa1290-LoRes.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-1635\" src=\"http:\/\/nlt.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Itarharwa1290-LoRes.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"473\" height=\"710\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nlt.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Itarharwa1290-LoRes.jpg 432w, https:\/\/www.nlt.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Itarharwa1290-LoRes-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 473px) 100vw, 473px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1635\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Itarharwa village school headmistress<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1636\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1636\" style=\"width: 504px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/nlt.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Itarharwa1366-LoRes.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1636\" src=\"http:\/\/nlt.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Itarharwa1366-LoRes.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"504\" height=\"756\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nlt.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Itarharwa1366-LoRes.jpeg 504w, https:\/\/www.nlt.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Itarharwa1366-LoRes-200x300.jpeg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 504px) 100vw, 504px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1636\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Itarharwa village<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0The mayor of Itaharwa is a huge supporter of the Village Alive Programme. He shares NLT&#8217;s aim to improve the lives of lower caste people.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1637\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1637\" style=\"width: 648px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/nlt.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Itarharwa1303-LoRes.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1637 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/nlt.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Itarharwa1303-LoRes.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"648\" height=\"432\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nlt.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Itarharwa1303-LoRes.jpeg 648w, https:\/\/www.nlt.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Itarharwa1303-LoRes-300x200.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 648px) 100vw, 648px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1637\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Above photos: R. Thomas \u00a9 NLT Ireland 2019.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Irish field trip 2019\u00a0 to Lalgadh and its surrounding villages &#8211; Day 2. The Village Alive Programme is alive and well in Itarharwa where government officials describe a 50% improvement in the state of the village. Hygiene standards drastically rose as a personal cleaning programme was implemented. Women and men are also starting small businesses &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nlt.ie\/?p=1633\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Irish trip\u00a0to Lalgadh 2019 and its surrounding villages&#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-1633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nlt.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1633","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=1633"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.nlt.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2077,"href":"https:\/\/www.nlt.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1633\/revisions\/2077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nlt.ie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nlt.ie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nlt.ie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}