{"id":46172,"date":"2013-10-11T08:55:00","date_gmt":"2013-10-11T06:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/46172\/christmas-food-drive-gets-underwayor-creating-a-brighter-and-merrier-christmas\/"},"modified":"2013-10-11T09:05:41","modified_gmt":"2013-10-11T07:05:41","slug":"christmas-food-drive-gets-underwayor-creating-a-brighter-and-merrier-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2013\/10\/11\/christmas-food-drive-gets-underwayor-creating-a-brighter-and-merrier-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas food drive gets underway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Gauteng Provincial Association for Persons with Disabilities is again hosting the annual Christmas food drive for underprivileged children who have disabilities.<\/p>\n<p>GPAPD will be collecting non-perishable foods, toiletries, children&#8217;s clothes, toys and sweets, and biscuits.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The association would like to collect as many of the items needed as possible, in order to make this a brighter and merrier festive season for those who have never experienced the joy of a pleasant Christmas.<\/p>\n<p>The GPAPD will also accept gift vouchers from major supermarket groups and will use these to buy the food products that are needed.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>Donations community members would like to make to this cause will be collected where necessary.<\/p>\n<p>Companies who wish to participate in this initiative can also benefit through the point system on the BEE system.<\/p>\n<p>Any community members interested in helping this worthy cause, or who would like to find out more about the project, can contact Shane at shane.gpapd@iburst.co.za or call on 082 656 6616.<\/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='49117628ac2ccc7459e70c95fc9f55f1'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Creating a brighter and merrier Christmas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":46222,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[508,7,2],"tags":[984,977,1885,8297,1257,1051,1012,1003,1884,979],"class_list":["post-46172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-editors-choice","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-charity","tag-children","tag-christmas","tag-community-2","tag-donate","tag-donations","tag-east-rand","tag-ekurhuleni","tag-food-drive","tag-germiston"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["charity","children","Christmas","community","donate","donations","East Rand","Ekurhuleni","food drive","germiston"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46172","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=46172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46172\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}