{"id":204386,"date":"2025-08-10T15:26:54","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T13:26:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-aus-school-appeals-for-blanket-donations-amid-freezing-weather\/"},"modified":"2025-08-10T15:26:54","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T13:26:54","slug":"namibia-aus-school-appeals-for-blanket-donations-amid-freezing-weather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-aus-school-appeals-for-blanket-donations-amid-freezing-weather\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: AUs School Appeals for Blanket Donations Amid Freezing Weather"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\"><em>A Marmer Primary School teacher at Aus is appealing for donations of blankets for pupils amid the cold weather.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">Aus was struck with a not so rare cold snap on Tuesday, with snow falling and temperatures plummeting to -1\u00b0C, exceptionally harsh conditions for the region.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">Many pupils at Marmer Primary, particularly those staying in the school hostel, are bearing the brunt of the severe weather.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\">Hileni Shikongo, a teacher at the school, says they already have a lack of beds and mattresses.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">&#8220;I was&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202508060198.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>A Marmer Primary School teacher at Aus is appealing for donations of blankets for pupils amid the cold weather. Aus was struck with a not so rare cold snap on Tuesday, with snow falling and temperatures plummeting to -1\u00b0C, exceptionally harsh conditions for the region. Many pupils at Marmer Primary, particularly those staying in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":204387,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[723],"tags":[258,256,4344,19113,19256,8642,12050,4706,724,257,4362,254,10412],"class_list":["post-204386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-appeals","tag-aus","tag-blanket","tag-donations","tag-freezing","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-school","tag-south-africa-today","tag-weather"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.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\/204386","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=204386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204386\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}