{"id":192414,"date":"2025-02-27T18:28:39","date_gmt":"2025-02-27T16:28:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-old-mutual-boosts-schools-promoting-food-security\/"},"modified":"2025-02-27T18:28:39","modified_gmt":"2025-02-27T16:28:39","slug":"namibia-old-mutual-boosts-schools-promoting-food-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-old-mutual-boosts-schools-promoting-food-security\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Old Mutual Boosts Schools Promoting Food Security"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\"><em>The Old Mutual Foundation has awarded five schools a combined N$105 000 for projects promoting environmental sustainability and food security.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">The &#8216;Little Green Ambassadors&#8217; initiative was launched in October 2023, empowering pupils to cultivate fruit-bearing trees and vegetable gardens at their schools.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">The schools awarded were M\u00f4reson Special School (N$40 000), Ariamsvlei Primary School (N$30 000), DD Guibeb Primary School (N$20 000), Ben van der Walt Primary School (N$10 000) and Wilhelm&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202502270388.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 Old Mutual Foundation has awarded five schools a combined N$105 000 for projects promoting environmental sustainability and food security. The &#8216;Little Green Ambassadors&#8217; initiative was launched in October 2023, empowering pupils to cultivate fruit-bearing trees and vegetable gardens at their schools. The schools awarded were M\u00f4reson Special School (N$40 000), Ariamsvlei Primary School (N$30 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":192415,"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":[258,256,9156,5074,10939,4706,724,257,7693,6756,4586,254],"class_list":["post-192414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-boosts","tag-food","tag-mutual","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-promoting","tag-schools","tag-security","tag-south-africa-today"],"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\/192414","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=192414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192414\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}