{"id":2290,"date":"2015-05-26T11:19:16","date_gmt":"2015-05-26T15:19:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dharma.gograbapp.com\/?p=2290"},"modified":"2015-05-26T11:19:16","modified_gmt":"2015-05-26T15:19:16","slug":"keeping-orphans-out-of-slavery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dharma.gograbapp.com\/zh\/keeping-orphans-out-of-slavery\/","title":{"rendered":"Keeping Orphans out of Slavery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Rinpoche wrote this piece for the <a title=\"Huff Post: Keeping Orphans out of Slavery\" href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/trungram-gyaltrul-rinpoche-phd\/keeping-orphans-out-of-sl_b_7388910.html\" target=\"_blank\">Huffington Post<\/a>, where he is chronicling the relief efforts in Nepal. Please visit that site to read the <a title=\"Huff Post: Keeping Orphans out of Slavery\" href=\"http:\/\/http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/trungram-gyaltrul-rinpoche-phd\/keeping-orphans-out-of-sl_b_7388910.html\" target=\"_blank\">complete post<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>When I was in Asia in April, I was inspired to start an educational foundation. I founded a school in Nepal 25 years ago, the Trungram International Academy, which teaches over 400 students a year, and I wanted to extend that opportunity to more children. I spoke to some people about becoming founders of this new enterprise, and returned to the US.<\/p>\n<p>Then the first earthquake hit Nepal.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dharma.gograbapp.com\/dkw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/photo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2291\" src=\"https:\/\/dharma.gograbapp.com\/dkw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/photo-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"photo\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dharma.gograbapp.com\/dkw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/photo-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dharma.gograbapp.com\/dkw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/photo-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/dharma.gograbapp.com\/dkw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/photo.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Immediately in its aftermath, I started <a title=\"Buddhist Relief Services\" href=\"relief.utbf.org\" target=\"_blank\">Buddhist Relief Services<\/a>. There was no time to find founding donors. This was an emergency and support came from the heart. Volunteers joined from across the US, Singapore, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Taiwan and, of course, Nepal. We bought and distributed food. We gathered medicine and medical personnel from around Asia and helped them reach remote areas that other aid wasn\u2019t reaching. We are working on shelter for people whose homes are buried under the mountainside. And now we are thinking about the orphans. <a title=\"Huff Post: Keeping Orphans out of Slavery\" href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/trungram-gyaltrul-rinpoche-phd\/keeping-orphans-out-of-sl_b_7388910.html\" target=\"_blank\">READ MORE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rinpoche wrote this piece for the Huffington Post, where he is chronicling the relief efforts in Nepal. Please visit that site to read the complete post. When I was in Asia in April, I was inspired to start an educational foundation. I founded a school in Nepal 25 years ago, the Trungram International Academy, which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"2.12.2","language":"zh","enabled_languages":["en","zh","es"],"languages":{"en":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"zh":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false},"es":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dharma.gograbapp.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2290"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dharma.gograbapp.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dharma.gograbapp.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dharma.gograbapp.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dharma.gograbapp.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dharma.gograbapp.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2290\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dharma.gograbapp.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dharma.gograbapp.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dharma.gograbapp.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}