{"id":121,"date":"2002-01-23T15:46:53","date_gmt":"2002-01-23T14:46:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/makeni.org.uk\/wordpress\/?p=121"},"modified":"2011-06-02T11:10:02","modified_gmt":"2011-06-02T10:10:02","slug":"st-nicholas-village-for-orphans-opening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/makeni.org.uk\/wordpress\/2002\/01\/st-nicholas-village-for-orphans-opening\/","title":{"rendered":"St Nicholas Village for Orphans opening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Blessing Ceremony of the AIDS Orphan Village  took place on January 17th, 2001. There were many children present for  the occasion, as you can see. It has been decided to call the AIDS  Orphanage Village after St Nicholas, the Patron Saint for Orphans.  Fourteen little buildings were blessed, i.e. ten residences for orphans,  the kitchen\/storeroom, the common\/dining\/recreation room and the Tuck  Shop, which is a continuous fund-raising project fo<a href=\"http:\/\/makeni.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2002\/01\/smorph5.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-123 alignleft\" title=\"Opening ceremonies\" src=\"http:\/\/makeni.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2002\/01\/smorph5-300x217.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"217\" srcset=\"http:\/\/makeni.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2002\/01\/smorph5-300x217.jpg 300w, http:\/\/makeni.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2002\/01\/smorph5.jpg 351w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>r the Orphanage.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks  to the amazing generosity of donors, we have been able to pay off the  debt of K85 million on buildings, K17 million on the dining room, K22  million on furniture and equipment.<\/p>\n<p>As of January 23rd, 2002,  thirteen children had been identified for adoption and inclusion in the  project, ranging in age from a girl of 12 (one half of a twin; the other  was sold into marriage &#8212; see what happens when there is no one to take  care of these little ones?) to a baby. The legal processes are under  way and we hope soon to be able to send you e-mail photographs of the  children in residence.   Three staff have been engaged to run the  project, that is Mrs Judy Passmore (Day Housemother), Miss Grace Phiri  (Night Housemother), and Mr Alfred Mulenga (Gardener\/maintenance  worker\/to be trained also as driver)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Blessing Ceremony of the AIDS Orphan Village took place on January 17th, 2001. There were many children present for the occasion, as you can see. It has been decided to call the AIDS Orphanage Village after St Nicholas, the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/makeni.org.uk\/wordpress\/2002\/01\/st-nicholas-village-for-orphans-opening\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22],"tags":[32,76],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/makeni.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/makeni.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/makeni.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/makeni.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/makeni.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/makeni.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":124,"href":"http:\/\/makeni.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121\/revisions\/124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/makeni.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/makeni.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/makeni.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}