{"id":47,"date":"2011-03-05T14:17:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-05T13:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.new.neemtreetrust.org.uk\/?p=47"},"modified":"2011-03-28T22:03:43","modified_gmt":"2011-03-28T21:03:43","slug":"anthony-savarimuthu-new-hope-in-my-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.neemtreetrust.org.uk\/archives\/47","title":{"rendered":"Anthony Savarimuthu &#8211; New hope in my life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-48\" title=\"antony\" src=\"http:\/\/www.new.neemtreetrust.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/antony.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"280\" height=\"188\" \/>My name is Antony Savarimuthu.  I was a leprosy patient.  But now, if you see only my face and hands, you cannot make out that I was once affected by leprosy.  I am very much thankful to St. Luke\u2019s Leprosarium, which has brought new hope in my life.<\/p>\n<p>I am from a poor family.  My father was a (palmyrah) toddy-tapper.<\/p>\n<p>When I was 11 years old, my left leg got paralysed suddenly (Foot-drop due to leprosy).  I went to St. Luke\u2019s Leprosarium.  They gave intensive treatment, including POP Cast and physiotherapy exercises.  A few months later I had reconstructive surgery, which corrected my foot-drop.  Now I am able to walk almost normally.<\/p>\n<p>Then St. Luke\u2019s Leprosarium sent me to the Salvation Army Vocational Training Centre, at Aramboly in Kanyakumari District. I had thorough training in welding.  Completing the course successfully, I returned home as a fully qualified welder.<\/p>\n<p>On the recommendation of St. Luke\u2019s Leprosarium, the Bank advanced loan to me.  I opened a Welding Workshop at Peikulam and fabricate steel doors\/gates etc.  It is a thriving business now.  I am happily married.  We have one daughter and two sons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My name is Antony Savarimuthu. I was a leprosy patient. But now, if you see only my face and hands, you cannot make out that I was once affected by [&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":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.neemtreetrust.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47"}],"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=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.neemtreetrust.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.neemtreetrust.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neemtreetrust.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neemtreetrust.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}