{"id":215973,"date":"2025-12-07T09:54:30","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T07:54:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-chitungwiza-teachers-trained-to-lead-frontline-fight-against-drug-abuse-in-schools\/"},"modified":"2025-12-07T09:54:30","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T07:54:30","slug":"zimbabwe-chitungwiza-teachers-trained-to-lead-frontline-fight-against-drug-abuse-in-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-chitungwiza-teachers-trained-to-lead-frontline-fight-against-drug-abuse-in-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Chitungwiza Teachers Trained to Lead Frontline Fight Against Drug Abuse in Schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">A cohort of 25 teachers from across Chitungwiza has completed an intensive training programme aimed at strengthening drug and substance abuse prevention in schools amid rising concern over the growing impact of addiction on young learners<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">The week-long training was facilitated by Youth Aspire Development Trust (YADT) in partnership with MoPSE and supported by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC).<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">Participants were drawn from government, private and primary schools &#8212; including the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202512020044.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zimbabwe\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/\">Zimbabwe<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A cohort of 25 teachers from across Chitungwiza has completed an intensive training programme aimed at strengthening drug and substance abuse prevention in schools amid rising concern over the growing impact of addiction on young learners The week-long training was facilitated by Youth Aspire Development Trust (YADT) in partnership with MoPSE and supported by the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[248],"tags":[5099,258,256,4591,6949,4345,17240,7358,257,6756,254,7113,12737,4686,421],"class_list":["post-215973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-abuse","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-chitungwiza","tag-drug","tag-fight","tag-frontline","tag-lead","tag-news","tag-schools","tag-south-africa-today","tag-teachers","tag-trained","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215973","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=215973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215973\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}