{"id":7595,"date":"2015-03-12T11:29:13","date_gmt":"2015-03-12T09:29:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/it\/?p=7595"},"modified":"2016-01-18T14:48:31","modified_gmt":"2016-01-18T12:48:31","slug":"it-staff-open-their-pockets-for-vws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/it\/2015\/03\/it-staff-open-their-pockets-for-vws\/","title":{"rendered":"IT staff open their pockets for VWSIT-personeel skud hulle sakke vir VWS"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"vws\"Over the past\u00a0week\u00a0a relentless wildfire has been tearing\u00a0through the Jonkershoek Valley in Stellenbosch. At least 3000 hectares of veld has been burnt down and 450 fire fighters battled\u00a0to keep the fire under control.<\/p>\n

During\u00a0the recent wildfire in the Cape Point area, we’ve seen the circumstances under which these fire fighters work and many of them are\u00a0VWS<\/a>\u00a0(Volunteer Wildfire Services) volunteers. Therefore they are dependent on donations to be able to do their job\u00a0and need funds to effectively fight fires with helicopters, buy equipment and also basic items like medical supplies, eye drops, food and water.<\/p>\n

IT staff wanted to help and started collecting money on Wednesday morning. At the end of the day the total stood at R4450-00 and food supplies were also collected and delivered at MFM. The money collected was paid into VWS’s account via a registered\u00a0VWS-project<\/a>\u00a0at\u00a0Givengain<\/a>\u00a0and will be used as needed by the organisation.<\/p>\n

We challenge other SU departments and divisions to do the same. Have a look on the\u00a0Volunteer Wildfire Services website<\/a>\u00a0for more information on how to help and on their\u00a0Facebook<\/a>\u00a0for the latest news on the fire.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\"vws\"Die afgelope week\u00a0woed `n verwoestende veldbrand in die Jonkershoekvallei in Stellenbosch. Bykans 3000 hektaar veld reeds gebrand en 450 brandbestryders het hulle hande vol gehad om die brand onder beheer te hou.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Met die\u00a0onlangse verwoestende brand in die Kaappunt-omgewing het ons gesien hoe hard brandbestryders onder moeilike omstandighede werk en\u00a0`n groot deel hiervan is\u00a0VWS<\/a>\u00a0(Volunteer Wildfire Services) vrywilligers. Hulle is dus afhanklik van bydraes om hulle werk te kan doen en het fondse nodig om brandbestryding met helikopters te doen, vir toerusting en ook basiese items soos mediese voorraad, oogdruppels, kos en water.<\/p>\n

Informasietegnologie-personeel wou graag help en het Woensdag hulle sakke geskud en teen die einde van die dag reeds R4450-00\u00a0ingesamel, sowel as\u00a0kosvoorraad. Hierdie geld word via Givengain<\/a> se geregistreerde VWS-projek<\/a> direk in hulle rekening betaal sodat hulle dit kan gebruik vir noodsaaklikhede.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Ons daag ander US-departemente en -afdelings uit om dieselfde te doen. \u00a0Gaan kyk gerus op Volunteer Wildfire Services se webwerf <\/a>vir meer inligting oor hoe om te help en hul Facebook-<\/a>blad vir die nuutste nuus oor die brand.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Over the past\u00a0week\u00a0a relentless wildfire has been tearing\u00a0through the Jonkershoek Valley in Stellenbosch. At least 3000 hectares of veld has been burnt down and 450 fire fighters battled\u00a0to keep the fire under control. During\u00a0the recent wildfire in the Cape Point area, we’ve seen the circumstances under which these fire fighters work and many of them […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":259,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[214,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community-interaction","category-general"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-08 23:24:05","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/259"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7595"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7643,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7595\/revisions\/7643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}