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The Keetmanshoop municipality handed over food parcels to the elderly at the southern town on Friday.<\/em><\/p>\n The initiative forms part of the municipality’s annual support programme, which aims to alleviate household food insecurity among the senior citizens.<\/p>\n Speaking at the event, Keetmanshoop mayor Melody Swartbooi said the purpose of the programme is to give back to the elderly as a small token of appreciation.<\/p>\n “This programme is not to say just take and go on with your life, but it is to show genuine…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> The Keetmanshoop municipality handed over food parcels to the elderly at the southern town on Friday. The initiative forms part of the municipality’s annual support programme, which aims to alleviate household food insecurity among the senior citizens. Speaking at the event, Keetmanshoop mayor Melody Swartbooi said the purpose of the programme is to give back […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":219473,"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":[258,256,5624,5074,38570,22888,4706,724,257,33859,8609,254],"class_list":["post-219472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-elderly","tag-food","tag-keetmanshoop","tag-municipality","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-parcels","tag-receive","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\/219472","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=219472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219472\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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