{"id":1305,"date":"2020-07-18T09:13:06","date_gmt":"2020-07-18T09:13:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/mbhgblog\/?p=1305"},"modified":"2020-07-27T06:50:22","modified_gmt":"2020-07-27T06:50:22","slug":"bless-a-baby-mandela-day-initiative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/mbhgblog\/2020\/07\/18\/bless-a-baby-mandela-day-initiative\/","title":{"rendered":"[:en]Bless-a-Baby Mandela Day Initiative[:]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[:en]The 18th July marks Mandela Day in South Africa. This Mandela Day is special in that it is the 10<sup>th<\/sup> Anniversary, marking a decade long promise by all South Africans to work together to make a difference in our country.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fblessababy.org%2F&amp;data=02%7C01%7C%7C6ac0eab4b49b465a932308d828959343%7Ca6fa3b030a3c42588433a120dffcd348%7C0%7C0%7C637303970207073739&amp;sdata=5%2FT4jhfC1W4Gj%2BGFY071pMmskuc5HHdoKYEZZq0iOzQ%3D&amp;reserved=0\"><b><u><span lang=\"EN-US\">Bless-a-Baby<\/span><\/u><\/b><\/a><span lang=\"EN-US\">, a non-profit organization that that provides relief for new mothers in historically disadvantaged areas by providing essentials for a mother and newborn, is hosting a special event from Wed 15 July till Sat 18 July, in honour of Mandela Day. For this event, volunteers donated 67 minutes of their time in the Bless-a-Baby workroom packing nappy bags for distribution to 10 hospitals throughout the Cape Town area.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>ngg_shortcode_0_placeholderIn honour of Madiba, members of MBHG donated their time, money or essential baby items to Bless-a-Baby to&nbsp;do their part to make a positive impact in the lives of others![:]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[:en]The 18th July marks Mandela Day in South Africa. This Mandela Day is special in that it is the 10th Anniversary, marking a decade long promise by all South Africans to work together to make a difference in our country. Bless-a-Baby, a non-profit organization that that provides relief for new&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10949,"featured_media":1306,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[66985],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-event-highlights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/mbhgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/mbhgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/mbhgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/mbhgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10949"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/mbhgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1305"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/mbhgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1324,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/mbhgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1305\/revisions\/1324"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/mbhgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/mbhgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/mbhgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/mbhgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}