{"id":67253,"date":"2017-05-23T08:26:24","date_gmt":"2017-05-23T06:26:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/?p=67253"},"modified":"2017-05-24T11:00:37","modified_gmt":"2017-05-24T09:00:37","slug":"video-critical-shortage-funds-disability-centre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2017\/05\/23\/video-critical-shortage-funds-disability-centre\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Critical shortage of funds at disability centre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The centre also needs food for at least one meal a day.<\/p>\n<p>Since March this year they&#8217;ve been volunteering as teachers to about 43 children with special needs and disabilities, and they say that the progress made is remarkable.<\/p>\n<div class='tie-fluid-width-video-wrapper tie-ignore-fitvid' style='margin-bottom: 30px;'>\n\t\t\t<iframe style='width: 100%; min-height: 300px; aspect-ratio: 16\/9;' src='https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/Ys1rFNUkOWM' loading='lazy'><\/iframe>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<p>The centre would like to also appeal to remedial teachers to volunteer their time in the mornings.<\/p>\n<p>For information or to assist the centre, contact Ms Karen Loesch on 082 341 6195.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A critical shortage of funds at the Greater Middelburg Activity Centre for the disabled in Meyer Street is threatening the services of a group of volunteer teachers &#8211; and specifically funds to pay Mr Jean-Paul Ndebele, who is a sign language and braille teacher. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2844,"featured_media":67256,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Yaseen Gaffar","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[6966,6958,6957,6961,6959,6962,6965,934,1997,6960,1048,6964,6968,6969,6967,6963],"class_list":["post-67253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-43-children","tag-disability-centre","tag-disable","tag-doof","tag-ear","tag-ears","tag-gesels","tag-greater-middelburg-activity-centre","tag-help","tag-hoor","tag-meyer-street","tag-praat","tag-progress","tag-remarkable","tag-special-needs","tag-talk","post_format-post-format-video"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["43 children","disability centre","disable","doof","ear","ears","gesels","Greater Middelburg Activity Centre","help","hoor","Meyer street","praat","progress","remarkable","special needs","talk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2844"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67253\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}