{"id":4880,"date":"2024-11-19T16:02:23","date_gmt":"2024-11-19T15:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/horemi.org\/en\/?p=4880"},"modified":"2024-11-19T16:04:54","modified_gmt":"2024-11-19T15:04:54","slug":"give-the-gift-of-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/horemi.org\/en\/give-the-gift-of-light\/","title":{"rendered":"Give the gift of light!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Christmas:<\/strong> Here in the Global North, this is not only a cele\u00adbra\u00adtion of love, but also a huge festival of lights. Whether cities, villages, private homes or front gardens \u2014 every\u00adthing shines in an exuberant blaze of lights. There is no shortage of elec\u00adtricity at this time of year and we take it for granted that we always have enough.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But that is not the case. Espe\u00adcially not in other parts of the world. At the small aid orga\u00adni\u00adza\u00adtion HOREMI in Uganda, for example, which we support as a charity, the orphanage and school are only sparsely lit even at Christmas time. The only avail\u00adable sources of light are candles, torches and a few small solar lamps and flash\u00adlights. Old car batteries serve as charging stations for the few cell phones and the school\u2019s small jukebox. There is no real power supply at all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/horemi.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2024\/05\/image0-scaled-2-1024x768.jpeg\" alt class=\"wp-image-4754\" srcset=\"https:\/\/horemi.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2024\/05\/image0-scaled-2-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/horemi.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2024\/05\/image0-scaled-2-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/horemi.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2024\/05\/image0-scaled-2-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/horemi.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2024\/05\/image0-scaled-2-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/horemi.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2024\/05\/image0-scaled-2-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w, https:\/\/horemi.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2024\/05\/image0-scaled-2-540x405.jpeg 540w, https:\/\/horemi.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2024\/05\/image0-scaled-2-1080x810.jpeg 1080w, https:\/\/horemi.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2024\/05\/image0-scaled-2-1980x1485.jpeg 1980w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">So far, only a few solar lamps have brought a little light into the dark\u00adness at HOREMI<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Yes, light and shade are not evenly distrib\u00aduted on earth. But it is up to us to provide a little balance. And when, if not at Christmas, the festival of light and love? So what do you think about giving the gift of light at Christmas? Every euro helps HOREMI and its village neigh\u00adbors to enjoy more light not only at Christmas, but all year round with elec\u00adtricity for their most basic needs. There is no shortage of solar energy. A suffi\u00adciently sized solar system with battery storage is avail\u00adable in Uganda from around 5,000 euros.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So join in and <a href=\"https:\/\/horemi.org\/de\/jetzt-spenden-helfen-macht-freunde\/\">give<\/a> the people at HOREMI <a href=\"https:\/\/horemi.org\/de\/jetzt-spenden-helfen-macht-freunde\/\">a wonderful ray of hope this Christmas<\/a>! Every dona\u00adtion helps to make their lives easier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>We wish everyone on earth a Merry Christmas!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:60px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><mark>Would you like to give the chil\u00addren of HOREMI a helping hand? You can donate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/donate\/?hosted_button_id=WJ8NHT4T7CH7Y\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">quickly and easily here<\/a>. Thank you very much!<\/mark><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:60px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><mark><strong>You can find all the ways to support HOREMI on our <a href=\"https:\/\/horemi.org\/en\/become-a-sponsor\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"3821\">dona\u00adtions page.<\/a><\/strong><\/mark><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Light and shadow are not evenly distrib\u00aduted on earth. So what do you think about giving the gift of light at Christmas?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":4882,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-horemi"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/horemi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/horemi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/horemi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horemi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horemi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4880"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/horemi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4884,"href":"https:\/\/horemi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4880\/revisions\/4884"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horemi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/horemi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horemi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horemi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}