{"id":953,"date":"2020-09-14T09:15:01","date_gmt":"2020-09-14T09:15:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.friendsofmatthewrusike.org\/?p=953"},"modified":"2021-01-11T11:04:49","modified_gmt":"2021-01-11T11:04:49","slug":"september-newsletter-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.friendsofmatthewrusike.org\/?p=953","title":{"rendered":"September Newsletter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The September <a href=\"http:\/\/www.friendsofmatthewrusike.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/2020-Sept.docx\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Newsletter<\/span><\/a> reports on the desperate situation of the Home in recent months as a result of both Covid-19 and the ever declining economic situation of Zimbabwe. Overall, donations are down and the Home has had to make challenging decisions about cost cutting resulting in job losses and a return to outdoor cooking over a fire rather than paying for electricity.<\/p>\n<p>The good news is that <strong>so far children have not missed any meals<\/strong> and everyone at the home is virus free.<\/p>\n<p>A sincere thank you for all the donations we have received over the last 6 months, it is invaluable at this very uncertain and challenging time. The newsletter has details of other ways you can support the Home with one off charge free donations via <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/uk\/webapps\/mpp\/givingfund\/home\">PayPal<\/a> <\/span>and in your every day activities when purchasing on-line with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.friendsofmatthewrusike.org\/?p=946\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Amazon Smile.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The September Newsletter reports on the desperate situation of the Home in recent months as a result of both Covid-19 and the ever declining economic situation of Zimbabwe. Overall, donations are down and the Home has had to make challenging decisions about cost cutting resulting in job losses and a return to outdoor cooking over &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.friendsofmatthewrusike.org\/?p=953\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;September Newsletter&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsletters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.friendsofmatthewrusike.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.friendsofmatthewrusike.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.friendsofmatthewrusike.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.friendsofmatthewrusike.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.friendsofmatthewrusike.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.friendsofmatthewrusike.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.friendsofmatthewrusike.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.friendsofmatthewrusike.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.friendsofmatthewrusike.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}