{"id":73242,"date":"2014-11-12T09:48:00","date_gmt":"2014-11-12T07:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/73242\/ithembelihle-rewarded-for-food-gardening\/"},"modified":"2014-11-12T09:51:24","modified_gmt":"2014-11-12T07:51:24","slug":"ithembelihle-rewarded-for-food-gardening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2014\/11\/12\/ithembelihle-rewarded-for-food-gardening\/","title":{"rendered":"Ithembelihle rewarded for food gardening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Women farmers and school projects from around the country were honoured by the international food and beverage company Nestle South Africa in Sandton, recently.<\/p>\n<p>Ithembelihle Lsen School, located in Primrose East, was one of the schools that received awards for food gardening.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>Nestle rewarded schools and communities that improve the nutrition status of their community.<\/p>\n<p>Ithemelihle Lsen School received two Nestle Community Nutrition Awards; one provincial and one national award.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>Ithembelihle employees were thrilled to win the awards.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I feel very honoured to win the awards, we are encouraged to work harder and to contribute to the sustainability of the students and the country,&#8221; said Ithembelihle Lsen School principal, Leonor Ngozi.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Health and wellness has always been one of the school&#8217;s missions.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The school started food gardening projects in 2009 to ensure nutrition supplementation, knowledge and skills development among the students involved.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am impressed that our school is provincially and nationally recognised for food gardening and nutrition, we are also recognised by the Department of Education for the work we are doing,&#8221; said one of the gardeners at the Ithembelihle Lsen School, Edward Sitabule.<\/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='db034b2c0e80c2d8c2dc2f6e0eeb8705'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ithembelihle at the top with nutrition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":73243,"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":[5539,5185,5538,4653,979,1299,5540,5216,1564,2749],"class_list":["post-73242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-department-of-education","tag-farming","tag-food-gardening","tag-gardening","tag-germiston","tag-ithembelihle-lsen-school","tag-nestle-community-nutrition-awards","tag-nutrition","tag-primrose-east","tag-puleng-sekabate"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["Department of Education","farming","Food gardening","gardening","germiston","ithembelihle lsen school","Nestle Community Nutrition Awards","nutrition","primrose east","Puleng Sekabate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73242","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=73242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73242\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}