{"id":125867,"date":"2016-06-26T07:10:00","date_gmt":"2016-06-26T05:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/125867\/school-gets-a-visit-from-local-green-beauty\/"},"modified":"2016-06-24T16:04:41","modified_gmt":"2016-06-24T14:04:41","slug":"school-gets-a-visit-from-local-green-beauty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2016\/06\/26\/school-gets-a-visit-from-local-green-beauty\/","title":{"rendered":"School gets a visit from local green beauty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Castleview\u2019s Miss Earth SA regional finalist, Paballo Makupu, has been hard at work educating children about the environment.<\/p>\n<p>She recently visited the pupils at Colin Mann Primary School, to help them plant a tree and to give them tips on how they can help to save the world.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_125869\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-125869\" style=\"width: 520px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2016\/06\/26GCNGENERALEARTMH2_64450.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-125869\" src=\"https:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2016\/06\/26GCNGENERALEARTMH2_64450-520x390.jpeg\" alt=\"Paballo Makupu, Miss Earth SA regional finalist (left), and Colin Mann Primary\u2019s headboy, Wandile Mvulane, get ready to plant the tree.\" width=\"520\" height=\"390\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/31\/2016\/06\/26GCNGENERALEARTMH2_64450-520x390.jpeg 520w, https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/31\/2016\/06\/26GCNGENERALEARTMH2_64450-270x203.jpeg 270w, https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/31\/2016\/06\/26GCNGENERALEARTMH2_64450.jpeg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-125869\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Paballo Makupu, Miss Earth SA regional finalist (left), and Colin Mann Primary\u2019s headboy, Wandile Mvulane, get ready to plant the tree.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThe programme started with the well-behaved Grades One to Three classes and included topics like \u2018What is climate change?\u2019 and \u2018How it affects them,\u2019&#8221; said Paballo.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe children were very interested in learning what they could do to prevent droughts, veld fires and prevent global warming.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cThe solution I presented to them is to reduce waste, reuse water and recycle.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Paballo then spoke to the pupils in the Grades Four to Seven classes and left them with a number of challenges.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI asked them to participate in Meat Free Mondays, to plant trees and, for the month of July, to try not to use anything made of plastic, for example, plastic bags, water bottles or straws,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>The day was rounded off with the planting of an indigenous tree \u2013 the Karee tree, which uses less water.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Other articles you may be interested in:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/124491\/green-beauty-educates-the-youth\/\" target=\"_blank\">Green beauty educates the youth<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/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='d2032fbeb21c6a1dcad733184cccb318'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Miss Earth SA regional finalist Paballo Makupu, from Castleview, recently visited Colin Mann Primary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":125868,"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":[6781,1419,979,969,1059,2734,3750,11315],"class_list":["post-125867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-colin-mann-school","tag-environment","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-lambton","tag-melissa-hart","tag-melissa-hart-driehoek","tag-miss-earth-sa"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["colin mann school","environment","germiston","germiston city news","lambton","melissa hart","melissa hart. driehoek","miss earth sa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125867","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=125867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125867\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}