{"id":4332,"date":"2016-04-04T18:53:15","date_gmt":"2016-04-04T18:53:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/?p=4332"},"modified":"2018-03-19T02:24:21","modified_gmt":"2018-03-18T15:24:21","slug":"world-book-day-nanie-guanlao-opens-his-free-library-in-manila","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/?p=4332","title":{"rendered":"World Book Day \u2013 Nanie Guanlao opens his free library in Manila"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the Makati district of Manila in the Philippines, there\u2019s a large sign outside the front of an otherwise unassuming house stating \u201cfree reading to the public\u201d. Over the last fifteen years, Ernando \u2018Nanie\u2019 Guanlao<\/strong> has transformed his home into a library, open to anyone and everyone.<\/p>\n

Starting with only 100 books, the 63 year-old former accountant has spent the last years collecting books for the library. He now piles up more than 1,000 books every year.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy home, my library. It\u2019s free, for everybody. You\u2019re welcome to drop in, to talk to me, to see me, enjoy my place\u201d, Nanie says, \u201cbooks are my mission, they are here simply to make people happy.\u201d<\/p>\n

The WorldRemit <\/strong>app helps people support initiatives like this back home by letting them send money straight from their smartphone, instead of having to travel to a money transfer agent. Those receiving money \u2014 often in developing countries \u2014 can collect the funds as mobile money, bank transfer, for cash pickup or as a mobile airtime top-up.<\/p>\n

WorldRemit\u2019s service is available to senders in 50 countries. It offers transfers to more than 125 destinations across Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia and the Americas. WorldRemit customers send 400,000 transfers every month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the Makati district of Manila in the Philippines, there\u2019s a large sign outside the front of an otherwise unassuming house stating \u201cfree reading to the public\u201d. Over the last fifteen years, Ernando \u2018Nanie\u2019 Guanlao has transformed his home into a library, open to anyone and everyone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,14,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4332"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4332"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4770,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4332\/revisions\/4770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}