{"id":1718,"date":"2022-08-22T09:22:40","date_gmt":"2022-08-22T09:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/daerl\/2022\/08\/22\/departments-meets-rosedale-women-who-have-turned-waste-dump-to-a-beautiful-park\/"},"modified":"2022-08-22T09:22:40","modified_gmt":"2022-08-22T09:22:40","slug":"departments-meets-rosedale-women-who-have-turned-waste-dump-to-a-beautiful-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/daerl\/2022\/08\/22\/departments-meets-rosedale-women-who-have-turned-waste-dump-to-a-beautiful-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Departments meets Rosedale women who have turned waste dump to a beautiful park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"pull-left size-full wp-image-1717\" src=\"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/daerl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2022\/08\/PARK_OF_HOPE.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"308\" height=\"205\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/daerl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2022\/08\/PARK_OF_HOPE.jpg 308w, https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/daerl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2022\/08\/PARK_OF_HOPE-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 308px) 100vw, 308px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As part of a build up program towards the Executive Council Outreach program scheduled for Wednesday, 17 August 2022, the Department met with a group of women from Rosedale, near Upington, who have turned an area that used to be a dumping site into a colorful flower and tree garden.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The idea of these gardens started because of the piles of rubbish being dumped close to their homes, creating a stench and unhealthy environment. Because most of the women are unemployed, acquiring tools for the upkeep of their gardens are quite challenging.<br \/>Today, the Department assisted with some of their needs and challenges by providing gardening starter kits and will be looking into issues of water and municipal waste removal services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of a build up program towards the Executive Council Outreach program scheduled for Wednesday, 17 August 2022, the Department met with a group of women from Rosedale, near Upington, who have turned an area that used to be a dumping site into a colorful flower and tree garden.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1717,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/daerl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1718","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=1718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/daerl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1718\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/daerl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/daerl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/daerl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/daerl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}