{"id":6566,"date":"2023-12-22T12:02:40","date_gmt":"2023-12-22T12:02:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/irene\/?page_id=6566"},"modified":"2025-09-14T17:24:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T17:24:08","slug":"irene4irene","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/irene\/irene4irene\/","title":{"rendered":"Irene4Irene"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left\"><em>This is a fund created by Ireners to act as a support system for members in our community who are in need &amp; experiencing financial difficulties. It aims to assist these students by helping to bridge the gap between different socio-economic backgrounds within our #321 family and focuses on basic necessities. Whether food insecurity, a lack of sanitary items, needing urgent medication, or even being unable to attend an Irene dance due to financial difficulties, it&#8217;s important for our community to support each other.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><strong>However, being students, we realise the limited donation capacity of our 321 Ireners. We therefore decided to extend to opportunity to donate to Irene4Irene to beyond our closed student community.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">During 2023, we had several Ireners utilize the fund for:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: left\">Bedding (duvets and pillows bought during welcoming for newcomers)<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left\">Sanitary items<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left\">Toiletries<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left\">Food<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left\">House dance tickets<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: left\"><strong>Want to donate to Irene4Irene? Please follow the link below:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: left\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.givengain.com%2Fcc%2Fthe-irene4irene-fund%2F&amp;data=05%7C01%7C%7C107d0e1c64614bbbf3d208dbbace7b8e%7Ca6fa3b030a3c42588433a120dffcd348%7C0%7C0%7C638309168219772896%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=iWXLYpcAb2WC0GXjSVQPFN%2B7D0CTSuAze59%2FT27leNw%3D&amp;reserved=0\">https:\/\/www.givengain.com\/cc\/the-irene4irene-fund\/<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>There is no minimum donation amount, because every donation whether R10 or R100, makes a big difference &amp; is highly appreciated.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you for considering Irene4Irene.<\/p>\n<p>Feel free to contact us via the contact form if you have any questions or want to contribute in another way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a fund created by Ireners to act as a support system for members in our community who are in need &amp; experiencing financial difficulties. It aims to assist these students by helping to bridge the gap between different socio-economic backgrounds within our #321 family and focuses on basic necessities. Whether food insecurity, a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/irene\/irene4irene\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Irene4Irene<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12911,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-6566","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/PaOjif-1HU","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/irene\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/irene\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/irene\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/irene\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12911"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/irene\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6566"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/irene\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7285,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/irene\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6566\/revisions\/7285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/irene\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}