{"id":221341,"date":"2019-10-22T14:08:48","date_gmt":"2019-10-22T12:08:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/car\/fiat-professional-making-difference\/"},"modified":"2020-10-01T14:56:01","modified_gmt":"2020-10-01T12:56:01","slug":"fiat-professional-making-difference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/motoring\/2019\/10\/22\/fiat-professional-making-difference\/","title":{"rendered":"Fiat Professional making a difference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWhile the plight of thousands of hungry South Africans centres around simple access to healthy diets, the logistics of actually making that food available relies on quality transport solutions, often to the most rural areas across great distances,\u201d Vaughn Marescia, Dealer Principal of Hillcrest Fiat, part of FMGH Motor Holdings.<\/p>\n<p>Vaughn Marescia handed over five Fiat Doblo Cargos vehicles to the Meals on Wheels charity to help overcome the logistics of delivering food to those in need. \u00a0The small cargo minivans are an ideal vehicle for the task at hand as it offers versatile solutions for light loads thanks to its clever packaging. &#8220;This versatility and secure internal storage make the Doblo Cargo a perfect solution to Meals on Wheels\u2019 mission to deliver food parcels to South Africans in need,\u201d Graham Eagle, Managing Director, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) South Africa.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-202281\" src=\"https:\/\/brakpanherald.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/27\/2019\/10\/klipspruit-primary-school.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p>World Food Day recognises the plight of 870 million undernourished people in the world and is continuously executing projects to combat global malnutrition with the full, projects spearheaded by the Food and Agricultural Organisation of the United Nations. The donation of five vehicles might be small in the greater context but is making a great difference to those in need in South Africa. As part of the donation, the Fiat Professional team assisted in the preparation of food that ultimately fed 10 000 in aid of World Food Day.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The preparations which included peeling, grating, cutting, frying and steaming scrumptious meals for 10,000 pre-determined beneficiaries were closely monitored by Master Chefs before being delivered with the Fiat Doblo Cargo vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/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='565122de8e8d00fdd835c0345132e713'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fiat Professional donated five Fiat Doblo Cargos to Meals on Wheels, a charity initiative focused on underprivileged and hungry South Africans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8257,"featured_media":221342,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Autodealer","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-221341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-motoring"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"Motoring","SubCategory":"Bikes"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221341","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\/8257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221341\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}