{"id":1341,"date":"2012-09-14T09:26:19","date_gmt":"2012-09-14T09:26:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/daerl\/2012\/09\/14\/dept-fao-and-adra-join-hands-in-the-fight-against-poverty-by-distributing-1000-chickens-and-vegetable-starter-packs-in-the-northern-cape\/"},"modified":"2012-09-14T09:26:19","modified_gmt":"2012-09-14T09:26:19","slug":"dept-fao-and-adra-join-hands-in-the-fight-against-poverty-by-distributing-1000-chickens-and-vegetable-starter-packs-in-the-northern-cape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/daerl\/2012\/09\/14\/dept-fao-and-adra-join-hands-in-the-fight-against-poverty-by-distributing-1000-chickens-and-vegetable-starter-packs-in-the-northern-cape\/","title":{"rendered":"THE DEPARTMENT, FAO AND ADRA JOIN HANDS IN THE FIGHT AGAINST POVERTY BY DISTRIBUTING 1000 CHICKENS AND VEGETABLES STARTER PACKS IN THE NORTHERN CAPE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br style=\"clear: right;\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-1340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/daerl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2012\/09\/DSC_0998.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"DSC 0998\" width=\"375\" height=\"250\" style=\"border: 1px solid #000000; float: left;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/daerl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2012\/09\/DSC_0998.jpg 448w, https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/daerl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2012\/09\/DSC_0998-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/daerl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2012\/09\/DSC_0998-380x254.jpg 380w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 375px) 100vw, 375px\" \/>The Northern Cape Department of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development together with the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) and the Adventist Development and<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Relief Agency (ADRA) distributed approximately 1000 chickens and starter packs to various projects in the John Taolo Gaetsewe District Municipality.<\/p>\n<p>The distribution of chickens and starter packs were part of celebrating Nelson Mandela month which started on 16 July 2012. More than 15 Projects and 900 households benefitted from the distributions by government, FAO, and ADRA collectively. The aim of distributing chickens and started packs is the United Nations and government\u2019s initiative towards the fight against poverty. It also seeks to encourage various communities to participate in their own household food production.<\/p>\n<p>Further more the department stretched its hand to other districts as well:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Namakwa &#8211; Established home gardens at Steinkopf, and bought groceries for the Old Age centre<\/li>\n<li>Pixley Ka Seme District \u2013 Established home gardens at Petrusville and Phillipstown while blankets were bought for 30 household, a house in Schmitsdrift was renovated which include the purchasing of kitchen utensils, carpet and grocery for the owner mme Pulane.<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Francis Baard \u2013 Three Old age centres received started packs and groceries.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Nelson Mandela Day campaign was launched three years ago by President Jacob Zuma to celebrate the birthday of Mr Mandela as well as the tireless contribution he has made for the country.\u00a0 Mandela Day was celebrated on the 18th July and is also an annual International Day adopted by the United Nations in 2009. END<\/p>\n<p>Issued by: Sub-Directorate Communication Services \u2013 Department of Agriculture Land Reform and Rural Development. END<br \/>Enquiries: Phemelo Manankong \u2013External Communications Officer \u00a0<br \/>Tel:\u00a0 053 839 7881<br \/>Cell: 071 889 5138 <br \/>Email: <a href=\"mailto:pmanankong@ncpg.gov.za\">pmanankong@ncpg.gov.za<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.agrinc.gov.za\/\">www.agrinc.gov.za<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Northern Cape Department of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development together with the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) and the Adventist Development and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1340,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-media-statements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/daerl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/daerl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/daerl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/daerl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/daerl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/daerl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1341\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/daerl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/daerl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/daerl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/daerl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}