{"id":67617,"date":"2017-05-30T10:01:04","date_gmt":"2017-05-30T08:01:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/?p=67617"},"modified":"2017-05-31T11:55:39","modified_gmt":"2017-05-31T09:55:39","slug":"update-critical-food-shortage-centre-disabled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2017\/05\/30\/update-critical-food-shortage-centre-disabled\/","title":{"rendered":"Update: Critical food shortage at Centre for Disabled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With tears running down her cheeks, Centre Manager Karen Loesch, said that they have no sugar, no meat, no veggies, no bread, and she simply cannot run the centre.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are in a dire situation, and at this rate we have no choice but to shut down on Friday\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Unless they receive help really fast, the more than 40 special needs children will be without a centre to attend during the day which gives them a sense of purpose.<\/p>\n<p>Read previous story: <a href=\"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/67253\/video-critical-shortage-funds-disability-centre\/\" target=\"_blank\">Video: Critical shortage of funds at disabilty centre<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Two weeks ago we reported that 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 \u2013 and specifically funds to pay Mr Jean-Paul Ndebele, who is a sign language and braille teacher.<\/p>\n<p>Now the situation has worsened, and the centre could shut down due to insufficient resources to feed one meal a day to the children.<\/p>\n<p>To assist the centre, contact Ms Karen Loesch on 082 341 6195.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A dire and desperate situation is unfolding at the Greater Middelburg Activity Centre for the Disabled, where a critical shortage of food will result in the closure of the centre this Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2844,"featured_media":67231,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Yaseen Gaffar","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[6999,6957,934,1997],"class_list":["post-67617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-centre","tag-disable","tag-greater-middelburg-activity-centre","tag-help"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["centre","disable","Greater Middelburg Activity Centre","help"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67617","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=67617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67617\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}