{"id":53,"date":"2026-04-08T15:22:20","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T15:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/engleepeou17.xyz\/?page_id=53"},"modified":"2026-04-08T15:36:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T15:36:10","slug":"who-we-are","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/engleepeou17.xyz\/?page_id=53","title":{"rendered":"Who We Are"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/engleepeou17.xyz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/LEE7928-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-55\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.7777777777777777;object-fit:cover;width:1170px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/engleepeou17.xyz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/LEE7928-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/engleepeou17.xyz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/LEE7928-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/engleepeou17.xyz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/LEE7928-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/engleepeou17.xyz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/LEE7928-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/engleepeou17.xyz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/LEE7928-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The history of Children of the Mekong starts like a fairytale. \u201cOnce upon a time\u2026\u201d a dentist in Vientiane takes in two street children who he finds on his doorstep.\u00a0 They are hungry and can\u2019t go to school.\u00a0 Believing that \u2018there\u2019s much more joy in seeing a child at school than in the street\u2019, Rene Pechard decides to help them and enrols them in a boarding school in Xiang Khouang called St Joseph\u2019s.\u00a0 Christmas and the New Year are just around the corner.\u00a0 Wanting to do more for the children\u2019s school, Rene Pechard asks French blanket manufacturers if they can help.\u00a0 They respond by sending him 100 francs and blankets for the children, and this act of generosity leads to the founding of The Association of Friends of St Joseph\u2019s School.\u00a0 Eventually, the organisation evolves into \u201cChildren of the Mekong\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The history of Children of the Mekong starts like a fairytale. \u201cOnce upon a time\u2026\u201d a dentist in Vientiane takes in two street children who he finds on his doorstep.\u00a0 They are hungry and can\u2019t go to school.\u00a0 Believing that \u2018there\u2019s much more joy in seeing a child at school than in the street\u2019, Rene&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-53","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"campaignId":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/engleepeou17.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/53","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/engleepeou17.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/engleepeou17.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engleepeou17.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engleepeou17.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/engleepeou17.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/53\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63,"href":"https:\/\/engleepeou17.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/53\/revisions\/63"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/engleepeou17.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}