{"id":17,"date":"2014-11-08T12:33:29","date_gmt":"2014-11-08T12:33:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.abcafrica.org\/?page_id=17"},"modified":"2014-12-04T21:28:22","modified_gmt":"2014-12-04T21:28:22","slug":"our-organisation","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.abcafrica.org\/?page_id=17","title":{"rendered":"The Organisation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>What does ABC Africa do?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Simply encourage those who have more than they need to give to those who need it the most<\/p>\n<p>ABC Africa wants <b>to make a difference <\/b>to as many orphaned and vulnerable children as we can by simply and directly providing food, medication and education to orphaned and vulnerable children in Sub Saharan Africa.<\/p>\n<p><b>How does ABC Africa do it?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>ABC Africa supports communities and grass roots projects to feed, educate and provide health care for their children by:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">providing nutritious food through school feeding projects, school porridge clubs and food by prescription programmes<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">providing medication and health prevention supplies<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">providing school supplies, transport and tuition<\/p>\n<p><b>The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The goals of ABC Africa are based primarily on Articles 6, 24 and 28<\/p>\n<p>Article 6 (Survival and development): Children have the right to live. Governments should ensure that children survive and develop healthily.<\/p>\n<p>Article 24 (Health and health services): Children have the right to good quality health care, to safe drinking water, nutritious food, a clean and safe environment, and information to help them stay healthy. Rich countries should help poorer countries achieve this.<\/p>\n<p>Article 28: (Right to education): All children have the right to a primary education, which should be free. Wealthy countries should help poorer countries achieve this right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What does ABC Africa do? Simply encourage those who have more than they need to give to those who need it the most ABC Africa wants to make a difference to as many orphaned and vulnerable children as we can by simply and directly providing food, medication and education to orphaned and vulnerable children in &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"http:\/\/www.abcafrica.org\/?page_id=17\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-17","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","nodate","item-wrap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.abcafrica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.abcafrica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.abcafrica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.abcafrica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.abcafrica.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.abcafrica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":124,"href":"http:\/\/www.abcafrica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17\/revisions\/124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.abcafrica.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}