{"id":1174,"date":"2019-12-05T11:09:37","date_gmt":"2019-12-05T09:09:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/safe.co.za\/SAFENews\/?p=1174"},"modified":"2019-12-05T11:09:37","modified_gmt":"2019-12-05T09:09:37","slug":"sweet-ek-se-homeless-children-enjoy-farm-fresh-grapes-from-safe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/safe.co.za\/SAFENews\/?p=1174","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Sweet, ek s\u00ea!&#8221; Homeless children enjoy farm fresh grapes from SAFE."},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1175\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1175\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-1175 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/safe.co.za\/SAFENews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"707\" srcset=\"https:\/\/safe.co.za\/SAFENews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/1.png 1000w, https:\/\/safe.co.za\/SAFENews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/1-300x212.png 300w, https:\/\/safe.co.za\/SAFENews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/1-768x543.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1175\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u00a0SAFE has made it part of their charity outreach to deliver cartons of early-season grapes to those in need for a number of years.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"text-indent: 0em;\">More than 200 street children were able to enjoy fresh table grapes at their annual festive season lunch in early December thanks to a donation of several cartons of grapes to the Homestead from SAFE.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were really pleased to get this early Christmas present for the children,&#8221; said \u00a0Nura Patel, receptionist at the Homestead in Upper Strand Street, Cape Town.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The grapes will be shared among all the Homestead projects in the city&#8221;, she said.<\/p>\n<p>The grapes were delivered to the Homestead by Jamie-Leigh Crouwkamp from the SAFE Logistics Department, and Chantelle Thompson, SAFE Logistics Manager.<\/p>\n<p>The Homestead, which has been working with street children for more than 32 years, has a vision to ensure that &#8220;no child should live, work or beg on the streets of Cape Town.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Delivering grapes is really a &#8220;drop in the ocean,&#8221; said Chantelle, &#8220;but the fact that we have contributed to a happy festive season lunch for these children who hardly ever get a break, is great.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>SAFE has made it part of their charity outreach to deliver a few cartons of early-season grapes to those in need for a number of years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 200 street children were able to enjoy fresh table grapes at their annual festive season lunch in early December thanks to a donation of several cartons of grapes &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[65,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/safe.co.za\/SAFENews\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1174"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/safe.co.za\/SAFENews\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/safe.co.za\/SAFENews\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/safe.co.za\/SAFENews\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/safe.co.za\/SAFENews\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1174"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/safe.co.za\/SAFENews\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1185,"href":"https:\/\/safe.co.za\/SAFENews\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1174\/revisions\/1185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/safe.co.za\/SAFENews\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/safe.co.za\/SAFENews\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/safe.co.za\/SAFENews\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}