{"id":66476,"date":"2014-08-14T13:45:00","date_gmt":"2014-08-14T11:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/66476\/share-your-story-with-cansa\/"},"modified":"2014-08-14T09:21:16","modified_gmt":"2014-08-14T07:21:16","slug":"share-your-story-with-cansa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2014\/08\/14\/share-your-story-with-cansa\/","title":{"rendered":"Share your story with Cansa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Cancer Association of South Africa (Cansa) celebrated Caregivers Week from August 1 to 7.<\/p>\n<p>Even though the official Caregivers Week has passed, Cansa has decided to focus on caregivers throughout the month of August.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;A caregiver is anyone who has ever taken care of someone; in our case we are focusing on a cancer patient,&#8221; said Relay for Life coordinator, Sharon Britz.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Whether it is a parent, spouse, sibling, cousin, grandchild or friend, irrespective of age and qualifications, if you have ever had the opportunity to look after a cancer patient you are one of the awesome people we call caregivers.&#8221;<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>Cansa would like to honour the caregivers this month.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;To do this, we appeal to the community to please send a short story of their experience as a caregiver,&#8221; said Britz.<\/p>\n<p>The short stories can be emailed to sbritz@cansa.org.za.<\/p>\n<p>Towards the end of August, at a date still to be confirmed, Cansa will host a function where all the caregivers, whether they gave a story or not, can be honoured.<\/p>\n<p>Any businesses or individuals who want to get involved shouldn&#8217;t hesitate to call Britz on 087 940 8356 or 083 460 6532.<\/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='d207154105683f70509de2ed96168a26'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cansa focuses on caregivers throughout the month of August.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":66487,"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":[4239,2756,4238,8297,1012,1003,1106,979,2730],"class_list":["post-66476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-cancer-survivors","tag-cansa","tag-caregivers","tag-community-2","tag-east-rand","tag-ekurhuleni","tag-gcn","tag-germiston","tag-leigh-hodgson"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["cancer survivors","Cansa","caregivers","community","East Rand","Ekurhuleni","GCN","germiston","Leigh Hodgson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66476","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=66476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66476\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}