{"id":211204,"date":"2025-10-25T08:04:52","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T06:04:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-japan-donates-over-p1million-to-bgbvc\/"},"modified":"2025-10-25T08:04:52","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T06:04:52","slug":"botswana-japan-donates-over-p1million-to-bgbvc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-japan-donates-over-p1million-to-bgbvc\/","title":{"rendered":"Botswana: Japan Donates Over P1million to BGBVC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">Gaborone \u2014 The Government of Japan has donated more than P1.13 million (USD 84,942) to support the Botswana Gender-Based Violence Prevention and Support Centre (BGBVC) in expanding its GBV shelter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">Speaking during the Grant Assistance for Grassroots Human Security Projects signing ceremony in Gaborone on Thursday, the Japanese Ambassador to Botswana, Mr Shindo Yusuke, said the gesture underscored long-standing partnership between the Japanese Embassy and BGBVC.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"39\">Mr Yusuke recalled that in 2012,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202510240411.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Botswana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/botswana\/\">Botswana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gaborone \u2014 The Government of Japan has donated more than P1.13 million (USD 84,942) to support the Botswana Gender-Based Violence Prevention and Support Centre (BGBVC) in expanding its GBV shelter. Speaking during the Grant Assistance for Grassroots Human Security Projects signing ceremony in Gaborone on Thursday, the Japanese Ambassador to Botswana, Mr Shindo Yusuke, said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":211205,"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":[2461],"tags":[258,256,52676,4718,2462,5073,1479,257,52675,254],"class_list":["post-211204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bgbvc","tag-botswana","tag-botswana-news","tag-donates","tag-japan","tag-news","tag-p1million","tag-south-africa-today"],"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\/211204","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=211204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211204\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}