{"id":6326,"date":"2013-02-11T15:32:40","date_gmt":"2013-02-11T19:32:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/manhassetlibrary.org\/?p=6326"},"modified":"2015-08-21T16:12:31","modified_gmt":"2015-08-21T20:12:31","slug":"fran-gordon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/manhassetlibrary.org\/site\/fran-gordon\/","title":{"rendered":"Fran Gordon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>&#8220;Learning English&#8221;<\/em><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The quest for knowledge knows no boundaries.\u00a0Even in the poorest of countries, it is universally understood, that the pathway towards a brighter tomorrow and future success is dependent upon the ability to go to school.<\/p>\n<p>As a former teacher, whose career was spent in a public school with a private school setting, I was shocked and appalled at the lack of educational opportunities for children in many parts of the world.\u00a0 In 2008, after my first trip to Nepal, I decided to actively try to initiate some change.\u00a0 In 2010, Nepal Program for Progress, Inc. became a recognized and registered 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, we are operating in the eastern Solukhumbu District of Nepal.\u00a0 Working in destitute remote areas, we have built two libraries, provided water to four schools, renovated and upgraded two schools, and gifted educational materials and books to enhance curriculum.<\/p>\n<p>The Nepali people speak multiple languages including Nepali, Hindi, and their mother tongue language.\u00a0 But it is English that everyone is striving to learn.\u00a0 As the universal language understood around the world, it is the common language that unites us.<\/p>\n<p>So in this very small and poor country, I have learned that life has no boundaries.\u00a0 The only fences that exist are the ones we put up ourselves.\u00a0 For me, expanding my boundaries has been exciting, uncomfortable, difficult and ultimately gratifying.\u00a0 It&#8217;s never easy to go further than you think you can&#8230;but you can.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Learning English&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":13070,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6326","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artists"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/manhassetlibrary.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/manhassetlibrary.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/manhassetlibrary.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manhassetlibrary.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manhassetlibrary.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6326"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/manhassetlibrary.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13071,"href":"https:\/\/manhassetlibrary.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6326\/revisions\/13071"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manhassetlibrary.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/manhassetlibrary.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manhassetlibrary.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manhassetlibrary.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}