{"id":1277,"date":"2012-11-10T06:28:02","date_gmt":"2012-11-10T06:28:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alalay.co.uk\/?p=1277"},"modified":"2012-11-12T07:22:33","modified_gmt":"2012-11-12T07:22:33","slug":"esu-awarded-prestigious-award-thanks-to-their-support-for-alalay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/alalay.co.uk\/?p=1277","title":{"rendered":"ESU awarded prestigious award, thanks to their support for Alalay!"},"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%3D1277&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<p><a href=\"http:\/\/alalay.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/ESU.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1278\" title=\"ESU\" src=\"http:\/\/alalay.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/ESU.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"280\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a>Congratulations to the Bristol branch of the English Speaking Union (ESU), who have just informed me that they have been awarded the &#8220;Valerie Mitchell award for International Achievement&#8221; at the recent ESU Conference at Dartmouth House,\u00c2 due to their ongoing support for Friends of Alalay.<\/p>\n<p>Their submission was based on the support they have given my work with street children in Bolivia over the last 4 years, culminating in the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Casa de Bristol\u00e2\u20ac\u009d where future volunteers and school parties can stay. In addition, the building contains a fully-equipped medical centre which means that Alalay children can receive on-site treatment and preventative care. The medical facilities are also used by children and their families who are part of Alalay&#8217;s prevention programme.<\/p>\n<p>The ESU have raised a brilliant amount for various projects and invited me to speak at their Thanksgiving Dinner last year. I am thrilled for the achievement of the ESU Bristol branch and remain extremely grateful to everyone involved in the group for all of their hard work for Friends of Alalay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to the Bristol branch of the English Speaking Union (ESU), who have just informed me that they have been awarded the &#8220;Valerie Mitchell award for International Achievement&#8221; at the recent ESU Conference at Dartmouth House,\u00c2 due to their ongoing &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/alalay.co.uk\/?p=1277\">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\/1277"}],"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=1277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/alalay.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1277\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/alalay.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alalay.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alalay.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}