{"id":64,"date":"2026-07-15T09:59:24","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T09:59:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/emerafoundation\/?page_id=64"},"modified":"2026-07-17T11:53:29","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T11:53:29","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/site.webcreationcanada.com\/emera_foundation\/about-us\/","title":{"rendered":"About Us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We exist to support poor children from the Mahakulung region of eastern Nepal who have lost their parents to the Everest tourism industry. Every year, countless people die while working on the slopes of the world\u2019s highest peak as porters to enable some 45,000 tourists to visit the region annually.<\/p>\n<p>More often than not, these lives are forgotten. More often than not, their children get lost in Nepal\u2019s state of poverty. These children are our priority.<\/p>\n<p>We also work to promote the local tourism industry and protect the local environment by collaborating with the likeminded national and international organizations to bring positive, sustainable and equitable growth to the region and the livelihood of the Mahakulung community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We exist to support poor children from the Mahakulung region of eastern Nepal who have lost their parents to the Everest tourism industry. Every year, countless people die while working on the slopes of the world\u2019s highest peak as porters to enable some 45,000 tourists to visit the region annually. More often than not, these [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template\/about.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-64","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.webcreationcanada.com\/emera_foundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/64","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.webcreationcanada.com\/emera_foundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.webcreationcanada.com\/emera_foundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.webcreationcanada.com\/emera_foundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.webcreationcanada.com\/emera_foundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/site.webcreationcanada.com\/emera_foundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/64\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":288,"href":"https:\/\/site.webcreationcanada.com\/emera_foundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/64\/revisions\/288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.webcreationcanada.com\/emera_foundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}