{"id":3041,"date":"2016-02-21T09:58:55","date_gmt":"2016-02-21T09:58:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alalay.co.uk\/?p=3041"},"modified":"2016-02-21T10:36:39","modified_gmt":"2016-02-21T10:36:39","slug":"alalay-carnival-and-stockwood-ladies-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/alalay.co.uk\/?p=3041","title":{"rendered":"Alalay Carnival and Stockwood Women&#8217;s Institute"},"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%3D3041&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>It was recently Carnival in Latin America &#8211; a huge event celebrated in a variety of ways in each country throughout the continent. It incorporates three-four days of\u00c2 parties, dancing, dressing up, music,\u00c2 food, drink and much more! In Santa Cruz de la Sierra it is no different &#8211; involving three days of people dressing up in long overalls and partying in\u00c2 &#8220;garages&#8221; (basically open areas in the centre of the city surrounded by big walls where people normally park their cars!). You pay to become a member of a certain &#8220;garage&#8221; and then you get free food and endless supplies of beer. Or you can wander round the centre and party in the streets &#8211; where the Santa Cruz tradition is to throw paint at you&#8230; or beer&#8230; or petrol.. or whatever people can get their hands on!<\/p>\n<p>It is a great fun event but very noisy, loud, drunken and often rather dangerous. Many of the kids have alcoholic parents and it is clearly very risky for them to be\u00c2 in the city during Carnival time. Instead, they are all invited to a special &#8220;retreat&#8221; together with the Church out in the countryside, and it is something to which\u00c2 kids really look forward. We were fortunate enough to have two of our current fantastic volunteers go to the retreat with them this year, and I\u00c2 think it was a great (if rather intense!) time for all.<\/p>\n\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-3041 gallery-columns-2 gallery-size-medium 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\/2016\/02\/12772960_1270956116253126_979189594_o-1024x614.jpg\" title=\"Alalay Carnival Retreat\" rel=\"gallery1\"><img src=\"http:\/\/alalay.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/12772960_1270956116253126_979189594_o-300x180.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"180\" alt=\"Alalay Carnival Retreat\" \/><\/a>\r\n<\/dt><dd class=\"gallery-caption\" id=\"caption3042\"><span class=\"imagecaption\">Alalay Carnival Retreat<\/span><br \/>\n<\/dd><\/dl><dl class=\"gallery-item\">\n<dt class=\"gallery-icon\">\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/alalay.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/stockwood.jpg\" title=\"Stockwood Women&#039;s Institute\" rel=\"gallery1\"><img src=\"http:\/\/alalay.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/stockwood-300x187.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"187\" alt=\"Stockwood Women&#039;s Institute\" \/><\/a>\r\n<\/dt><dd class=\"gallery-caption\" id=\"caption3043\"><span class=\"imagecaption\">Stockwood Women's Institute<\/span><br \/>\n<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\r\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>And whilst all of this was going\u00c2 on in\u00c2 Latin America, we were busy in the UK too &#8211; giving a talk to Stockwood Women&#8217;s Institute &#8211; it was a great opportunity to once again share about our work with Alalay and\u00c2 how they\u00c2 truly rescue these kids and offer them a new\u00c2 life. Many thanks to all the ladies for such a\u00c2 warm welcome. Please see photos of both events above &#8211; just click on them to enlarge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was recently Carnival in Latin America &#8211; a huge event celebrated in a variety of ways in each country throughout the continent. It incorporates three-four days of\u00c2 parties, dancing, dressing up, music,\u00c2 food, drink and much more! In Santa &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/alalay.co.uk\/?p=3041\">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\/3041"}],"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=3041"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/alalay.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3049,"href":"http:\/\/alalay.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3041\/revisions\/3049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/alalay.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alalay.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alalay.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}