{"id":1106,"date":"2012-09-16T06:30:24","date_gmt":"2012-09-16T06:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alalay.co.uk\/?p=1106"},"modified":"2012-09-19T05:07:17","modified_gmt":"2012-09-19T05:07:17","slug":"an-alalay-talk-in-georgia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/alalay.co.uk\/?p=1106","title":{"rendered":"An Alalay talk in Georgia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<!-- Facebook Like Button v1.9.6 BEGIN [http:\/\/blog.bottomlessinc.com] -->\n<iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=http%3A%2F%2Falalay.co.uk%2F%3Fp%3D1106&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=false&amp;width=450&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowTransparency=\"true\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height: 30px; align: left; margin: 2px 0px 2px 0px\"><\/iframe>\n<!-- Facebook Like Button END -->\n\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-1106 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail gallery1'><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\n\/\/ <![CDATA[\r\n\tjQuery(document).ready(function () {\r\n\t\tjQuery(\".gallery1 a\").attr(\"rel\",\"gallery1\");\t\r\n\t\tjQuery('a[rel=\"gallery1\"]').colorbox({maxWidth:\"95%\", maxHeight:\"95%\",title: function(){ return jQuery(this).children().attr(\"alt\"); }, });\r\n\t});\r\n\/\/ ]]>\r\n<\/script>\n<dl class=\"gallery-item\">\n<dt class=\"gallery-icon\">\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/alalay.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/P1780324-1024x768.jpg\" title=\"\" rel=\"gallery1\"><img src=\"http:\/\/alalay.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/P1780324-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\r\n<\/dt><\/dl><dl class=\"gallery-item\">\n<dt class=\"gallery-icon\">\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/alalay.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/P1780353-1024x768.jpg\" title=\"\" rel=\"gallery1\"><img src=\"http:\/\/alalay.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/P1780353-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\r\n<\/dt><\/dl><dl class=\"gallery-item\">\n<dt class=\"gallery-icon\">\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/alalay.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/P1780359-1024x768.jpg\" title=\"\" rel=\"gallery1\"><img src=\"http:\/\/alalay.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/P1780359-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\r\n<\/dt><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/><dl class=\"gallery-item\">\n<dt class=\"gallery-icon\">\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/alalay.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/P1780428-1024x768.jpg\" title=\"\" rel=\"gallery1\"><img src=\"http:\/\/alalay.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/P1780428-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\r\n<\/dt><\/dl><dl class=\"gallery-item\">\n<dt class=\"gallery-icon\">\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/alalay.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/P1780431-768x1024.jpg\" title=\"\" rel=\"gallery1\"><img src=\"http:\/\/alalay.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/P1780431-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\r\n<\/dt><\/dl><dl class=\"gallery-item\">\n<dt class=\"gallery-icon\">\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/alalay.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/P1780406-1024x768.jpg\" title=\"\" rel=\"gallery1\"><img src=\"http:\/\/alalay.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/P1780406-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\r\n<\/dt><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\r\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>As some of you may already know, I am currently living in Zugdidi, Georgia (ex-USSR) where, alongside co-ordinating &#8216;Friends of Alalay&#8217; from afar, I am working with a Georgian organisation called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chca.org.ge\/\" target=\"_blank\">Charity Humanitarian Centre Abkhazeti (CHCA)<\/a>.\u00c2 CHCA works with internally displaced people (IDPs) who have had to leave their past lives and homes behind in Abkhazia (a now break-away region of the country) and now\u00c2 live in other regions, where they are often marginalized and suffer from severe economic and social problems.<\/p>\n<p>Last week I was invited by a colleague to visit another project he runs which also works with IDPs. It is located in a poor settlement community called Potskho-Etseri, made up of predominantly people from Abkhazia.<\/p>\n<p>We shared biscuits and drink with the families, and I spoke\u00c2 with them about their lives, families and current situation. Afterwards, I was privileged to be asked to give a brief talk about my work with Alalay to a group of assembled adults. It was humbling to be given the opportunity to speak with people who lack so much themselves, yet could empathise and understand the situation in Bolivia, feeling themselves much\u00c2 better off in comparison as they at least have (some kind of) a roof over their heads.<\/p>\n<p>I was thrilled at the offer of playing with some of the children from the community. We ran around, sang, jumped, smiled and laughed together \u00e2\u20ac\u201c it was almost like being back with &#8216;my children&#8217; in Santa Cruz.<\/p>\n<p>I hope that soon I will be able to visit Potskho-Etseri\u00c2 again \u00e2\u20ac\u201c perhaps even to run some informal English classes! If anyone\u00c2 would like to find out any more about the situation in the settlement, please just <a href=\"http:\/\/alalay.co.uk\/?page_id=38\" target=\"_blank\">get in touch<\/a>\u00c2 with me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As some of you may already know, I am currently living in Zugdidi, Georgia (ex-USSR) where, alongside co-ordinating &#8216;Friends of Alalay&#8217; from afar, I am working with a Georgian organisation called Charity Humanitarian Centre Abkhazeti (CHCA).\u00c2 CHCA works with internally &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/alalay.co.uk\/?p=1106\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/alalay.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1106"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/alalay.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/alalay.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alalay.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alalay.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/alalay.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1106\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/alalay.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alalay.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alalay.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}