{"id":187968,"date":"2025-01-05T14:16:29","date_gmt":"2025-01-05T12:16:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-senior-citizens-honoured-with-new-years-gifts-at-rundu\/"},"modified":"2025-01-05T14:16:29","modified_gmt":"2025-01-05T12:16:29","slug":"namibia-senior-citizens-honoured-with-new-years-gifts-at-rundu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-senior-citizens-honoured-with-new-years-gifts-at-rundu\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Senior Citizens Honoured With New Year&#8217;s Gifts At Rundu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\"><em>The Roman Catholic Men&#8217;s Association of Namibia at Saint Peter&#8217;s Sarusungu hosted a second senior citizen&#8217;s New Year&#8217;s gift party in the Rundu Urban constituency on Wednesday.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"13\">According to the association&#8217;s chairperson, Michael Linyando, the pilot project began in 2019.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">&#8220;We hosted a first senior citizens&#8217; gifting party in 2021 with 56 elderly who received gifts from their children and grandchildren,&#8221; Linyando said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"11\">The main aim is to strengthen the family bond, he added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">This year, the turnout&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202501040011.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Namibia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/namibia\/\">Namibia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Roman Catholic Men&#8217;s Association of Namibia at Saint Peter&#8217;s Sarusungu hosted a second senior citizen&#8217;s New Year&#8217;s gift party in the Rundu Urban constituency on Wednesday. According to the association&#8217;s chairperson, Michael Linyando, the pilot project began in 2019. &#8220;We hosted a first senior citizens&#8217; gifting party in 2021 with 56 elderly who received [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":187969,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[723],"tags":[258,256,7604,17631,12645,4706,724,257,2407,6468,254,5114],"class_list":["post-187968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-citizens","tag-gifts","tag-honoured","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-rundu","tag-senior","tag-south-africa-today","tag-years"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187968\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}