{"id":109489,"date":"2016-01-08T08:45:00","date_gmt":"2016-01-08T06:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/109489\/community-pulls-together-to-collect-water\/"},"modified":"2016-01-09T13:28:58","modified_gmt":"2016-01-09T11:28:58","slug":"community-pulls-together-to-collect-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2016\/01\/08\/community-pulls-together-to-collect-water\/","title":{"rendered":"Community pulls together to collect water"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Caroline van Saasen is the co-founder of Water Shortage SA, a Facebook page encouraging travellers to take water with them as they travel and give it to people who are affected by drought.<\/p>\n<p>In response to this appeal, Din-Al-View CPF patrollers, at short notice, collected almost 500 litres of bottled water in one evening from community members.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The water was transported to drought-stricken areas on January 7 and the CPF thanks Rita Boshoff for proving it with the information regarding the distribution of water.<\/p>\n<p>The CPF thanks all residents of Sector Five who responded to this call for assistance at such short notice and is thrilled at the overwhelming response.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>For more information regarding the water collection project visit https:\/\/sites.google.com\/site\/watershortagesouthafrica\/<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Other articles you may be interested in:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/93250\/home-invasions-on-the-increase-in-the-din-al-view-area\/\" target=\"_blank\">Home invasions on the increase in the Din-Al-View area<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/101898\/open-letter-to-all-din-al-view-area-residents\/\" target=\"_blank\">Open letter to all Din-Al-View area residents<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"stream-item stream-item-below-post-content\">\n<div class='tenancy_slot tenancy_slot_1 jannah_ad' style='display: none;' data-query-id='848ffe097e37ee8768d50dbc688e0757'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Din-Al-View community opened their hearts to people living in drought-stricken areas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":109508,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[1510,2142,8921,979,969,2734,1289,4910,9330],"class_list":["post-109489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-cpf-2","tag-din-al-view-cpf","tag-drought","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-melissa-hart","tag-water","tag-water-collection","tag-water-shortage-sa"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["CPF","din-al-view cpf","drought","germiston","germiston city news","melissa hart","water","water collection","water shortage sa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1848"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109489\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}