{"id":4088,"date":"2024-05-31T09:19:55","date_gmt":"2024-05-31T09:19:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alalay.co.uk\/?page_id=4088"},"modified":"2025-04-07T14:45:02","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T14:45:02","slug":"2024-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/alalay.co.uk\/?page_id=4088","title":{"rendered":"2024"},"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=https%3A%2F%2Falalay.co.uk%2F%3Fpage_id%3D4088&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<p><strong>Nineteenth year<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As always, in 2024 our focus remains on&nbsp;<strong>helping Bolivian street children to help themselves<\/strong>. During this year, we will:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol>\n<li>Finance and champion Phase 2 of the &#8220;Positive Discipline Programme&#8221; for all Alalay staff (in Santa Cruz and La Paz) &#8211; equipping them with the necessary tools to better support our kids &#8211; read more about the success of Phase 1 <a href=\"http:\/\/alalay.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/2023-newsletter-christmas.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">HERE<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Renovate a dilapidated cabin at the out-of-town aldea so that it can once again house our oldest girls.  <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Fund our eldest children through their&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/alalay.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/2024-newsletter-spring.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">vocational training<\/a>&nbsp;courses<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Pay the salary of a&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/alalay.co.uk\/?p=1789\">house mother<\/a>, so she can continue her vital work bringing up and educating our children<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Fund the production of fresh Christmas&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/alalay.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/2024-newsletter-spring.pdf\">panettone<\/a>&nbsp;(to sell and generate further income) which has been a great success in recent years<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>You can always read more in detail about our planned\/completed projects in our newsletters <a href=\"http:\/\/alalay.co.uk\/?page_id=1036\">HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Plus continue to:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol>\n<li>Raise awareness of the plight of the street children in the UK and elsewhere<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Work together with Alalay staff in Bolivia to identify future needs and establish more production projects, with the eventual aim of making Alalay largely financially self-sufficient<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>When I am in the UK I speak regularly at primary and secondary schools, churches and other groups of all ages about the plight of the street kids. Please do&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/alalay.co.uk\/?page_id=38\">get in touch<\/a>&nbsp;if you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d like me to talk at any event or find out about upcoming fundraising events&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/alalay.co.uk\/?page_id=2993\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nineteenth year As always, in 2024 our focus remains on&nbsp;helping Bolivian street children to help themselves. During this year, we will: You can always read more in detail about our planned\/completed projects in our newsletters HERE. Plus continue to: When &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/alalay.co.uk\/?page_id=4088\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":26,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alalay.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4088"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alalay.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alalay.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alalay.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alalay.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4088"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/alalay.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4150,"href":"https:\/\/alalay.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4088\/revisions\/4150"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alalay.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alalay.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}