{"id":80371,"date":"2015-02-08T08:30:00","date_gmt":"2015-02-08T06:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/80371\/make-a-difference-in-the-lives-of-animals\/"},"modified":"2015-02-06T14:32:05","modified_gmt":"2015-02-06T12:32:05","slug":"make-a-difference-in-the-lives-of-animals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2015\/02\/08\/make-a-difference-in-the-lives-of-animals\/","title":{"rendered":"Make a difference in the lives of animals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many people do not realise that the Germiston and Bedfordview SPCA is not government funded.<\/p>\n<p>The society is entirely funded by donations from the community it serves.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>Chairman of the Germiston SPCA Michelle Falgate is appealing to people from the Germiston and Bedfordview community, and surrounding areas, to come forward and support \u201cYour SPCA.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>People willing to serve on the management committee are welcome to send a one page CV to spcacommittee@gmail.com.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>It is stressed that being \u201con the committee\u201d does not involve any operational work.<\/p>\n<p>It is an unpaid function involving planning, support, fund-raising and sustainability for the Germiston SPCA on behalf of the animals.<\/p>\n<p>The SPCA would welcome people with business acumen, especially individuals with skills in human resources, event planning, fund-raising, information technology or members of the legal profession.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt would be ideal to have a local councillor on board, so this is a specific invitation being extended,\u201d said Falgate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is essential that the individuals who carry the responsibility for the SPCA Germiston and Bedfordview, are caring, compassionate people with a heart for animals. Yet it has to be made clear that the SPCA movement has policies, principles and codes of conduct which apply nationally, and which must be observed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet\u2019s make 2015 a highly successful one for your SPCA.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The SPCA is also in need of volunteers to work in the SPCA second-hand shop during the week.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone interested in volunteering their time to work in the shop can email to mishbutorac@gmail.com<\/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='62edb2e3734df06e1b5c38517a72bb0e'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Join the SPCA committee and aid the city\u2019s animals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":80445,"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":[985,984,1257,987,979,969,983,2734,982,6492],"class_list":["post-80371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-animals","tag-charity","tag-donate","tag-driehoek","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-germiston-spca","tag-melissa-hart","tag-spca","tag-spca-committee"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["animals","charity","donate","driehoek","germiston","germiston city news","Germiston SPCA","melissa hart","SPCA","SPCA committee"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80371","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=80371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80371\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}