{"id":136046,"date":"2016-10-19T13:06:12","date_gmt":"2016-10-19T11:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/?p=136046"},"modified":"2016-10-19T13:06:12","modified_gmt":"2016-10-19T11:06:12","slug":"reconciliation-fund-raiser-a-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2016\/10\/19\/reconciliation-fund-raiser-a-success\/","title":{"rendered":"Reconciliation fund-raiser a success"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Parkhill Gardens\u2019 Church of Reconciliation held their Spring Women\u2019s Day, at the church, last Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is our event that is aimed at raising funds for the church,\u201d said the event organiser, Lerato Mosane.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cThe funds will be used towards upgrades at the church.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are also looking at making it an annual event, in the second week of October.\u201d<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The day\u2019s events included a raffle, lunch and a speech by Mpho Letlape, who was the guest speaker for the day.<\/p>\n<p>The GCN caught up with Letlape.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need to understand and know the importance of inclusion in gender equality,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs women we can\u2019t force inclusion, but there are a number of things we can do to influence being included in all that we need to be included in.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe also need to work towards striving for equity, so that both men and women are at the same level.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The women in attendance were dressed in beautiful and bright clothing, in line with the event.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Other articles you might also be interested in reading:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/135699\/mamba-raises-funds-for-cansa\/\">Mamba raises funds for Cansa<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/135252\/elderly-find-their-groove-during-celebrations\/\">Elderly find their groove during celebrations<\/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='c553672841d91b92498945ab65b8d745'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gender equality was the focus for the Spring Women\u2019s Day held at the Church of Reconciliation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":552,"featured_media":135874,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Puleng Sekabate","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[508,7,2],"tags":[3823,1517,2815,1106,979,969,4784,9010,2749,1491,12657,1452],"class_list":["post-136046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-editors-choice","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-church-of-reconciliation","tag-fund-raiser","tag-fund-raising","tag-gcn","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-germiston-news","tag-germiston-stories","tag-puleng-sekabate","tag-spring","tag-spring-womens-day","tag-women"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["Church of Reconciliation","fund raiser","Fund-raising","GCN","germiston","germiston city news","Germiston News","Germiston stories","Puleng Sekabate","spring","Spring Women's Day","women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136046","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\/552"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136046\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}