{"id":368,"date":"2011-04-12T21:30:02","date_gmt":"2011-04-12T20:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.new.neemtreetrust.org.uk\/?p=368"},"modified":"2011-04-25T18:40:03","modified_gmt":"2011-04-25T17:40:03","slug":"arumugam-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.neemtreetrust.org.uk\/archives\/368","title":{"rendered":"Arumugam&#8217;s Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.new.neemtreetrust.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/arumugam-01.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-374 alignright\" title=\"Arumugam\" src=\"http:\/\/www.new.neemtreetrust.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/arumugam-01-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.neemtreetrust.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/arumugam-01-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.neemtreetrust.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/arumugam-01-36x36.jpg 36w, https:\/\/www.neemtreetrust.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/arumugam-01-115x115.jpg 115w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>Arumugam is a boy who was affected by polio as a child and grew up at the Boys\u2019 Home. With the help of the Neem Tree Trust he now has his own tailoring business, \u201cAlex Tailoring\u201d, and when Kathy visited him he proudly welcomed her to his new shop. He is a fine tailor, is building up a good customer base and has recently been commissioned to make sets of clothes for all the girls at St Luke\u2019s Leprosy Hospital, Peikulam.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_376\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.new.neemtreetrust.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/arumugam-02.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-376\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-376\" title=\"Arumugam\" src=\"http:\/\/www.new.neemtreetrust.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/arumugam-02-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.neemtreetrust.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/arumugam-02-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.neemtreetrust.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/arumugam-02-36x36.jpg 36w, https:\/\/www.neemtreetrust.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/arumugam-02-115x115.jpg 115w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-376\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Arumugam outside his tailoring shop<\/p><\/div>\n<p>With the help of his friend Kannan he makes many of the items we sell at our NTT stalls, and is also training up new boys. With money he has earned he has bought himself a specially adapted motorbike with stabilisers which he uses to transport himself and friends about.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_377\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.new.neemtreetrust.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/arumugam-03.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-377\" class=\"size-full wp-image-377\" title=\"Arumugam\" src=\"http:\/\/www.new.neemtreetrust.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/arumugam-03.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"295\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.neemtreetrust.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/arumugam-03.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.neemtreetrust.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/arumugam-03-300x221.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-377\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Arumugam and Maharaja<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arumugam is a boy who was affected by polio as a child and grew up at the Boys\u2019 Home. With the help of the Neem Tree Trust he now has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.neemtreetrust.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.neemtreetrust.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.neemtreetrust.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neemtreetrust.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neemtreetrust.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.neemtreetrust.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.neemtreetrust.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neemtreetrust.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neemtreetrust.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}