{"id":468,"date":"2011-03-18T06:17:43","date_gmt":"2011-03-18T06:17:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spenditwell.com\/updates\/?p=468"},"modified":"2011-03-18T06:24:23","modified_gmt":"2011-03-18T06:24:23","slug":"macalaco-school-ground-breaking-ceremony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spenditwell.com\/updates\/?p=468","title":{"rendered":"Macalaco School Ground Breaking Ceremony"},"content":{"rendered":"

Simon, Jenny and Agostihno arrived at Macalaco school (a 4 hour drive from Dili)\u00a0last Thursday, expecting a simple ceremony with a few people to officially allow the work to start on the new school building.\u00a0 Instead they were greeted by a welcoming line of school children who had been there since 9am and a day of speeches and performances by children and the villagers.\u00a0\u00a0Jenny delivered a speech in Tetum which the villagers loved.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The importance of the school building to the villagers and their gratitude had even Simon admitting to a tear or two in his eye.\u00a0\u00a0Mario, the builder, has worked with the community to demolish the old building and the\u00a0project is all ready to go.\u00a0\u00a0 The community support is fantastic for<\/a> the building work and for the other\u00a0things we hope to be able to help with\u00a0in the village.\u00a0 Work is to start very soon<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Simon, Jenny and Agostihno arrived at Macalaco school (a 4 hour drive from Dili)\u00a0last Thursday, expecting a simple ceremony with a few people to officially allow the work to start on the new school building.\u00a0 Instead they were greeted by a welcoming line of school children who had been there since 9am and a day […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[10],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spenditwell.com\/updates\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spenditwell.com\/updates\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spenditwell.com\/updates\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spenditwell.com\/updates\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spenditwell.com\/updates\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=468"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.spenditwell.com\/updates\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":483,"href":"https:\/\/www.spenditwell.com\/updates\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468\/revisions\/483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spenditwell.com\/updates\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spenditwell.com\/updates\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spenditwell.com\/updates\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}