{"id":239674,"date":"2026-07-27T19:34:55","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T17:34:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-rural-schools-still-dealing-with-aftermath-of-us-funding-cuts\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T19:34:55","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T17:34:55","slug":"lesotho-rural-schools-still-dealing-with-aftermath-of-us-funding-cuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-rural-schools-still-dealing-with-aftermath-of-us-funding-cuts\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesotho Rural Schools Still Dealing With Aftermath of US Funding Cuts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"16\"><em> Community volunteers completed one school but another is still waiting for promised donor money <\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">Rural Lesotho schools are still struggling a year after the United States abruptly <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/groundup.org.za\/article\/us-aid-cuts-leave-rural-lesotho-schools-roofless\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">terminated funding<\/a> for school infrastructure projects.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">At Khama-khamane Primary in Mohale&#8217;s Hoek district a classroom block stands roofless despite a promise of fresh donor support.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">Others have fared better, such as Sephelane Primary in Qacha&#8217;s Nek district, where a local community association has completed building&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202607270226.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Lesotho\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/\">Lesotho<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Community volunteers completed one school but another is still waiting for promised donor money Rural Lesotho schools are still struggling a year after the United States abruptly terminated funding for school infrastructure projects. At Khama-khamane Primary in Mohale&#8217;s Hoek district a classroom block stands roofless despite a promise of fresh donor support. Others have fared [&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":[1406],"tags":[258,256,9554,7210,16735,6141,4717,1407,257,6309,6756,254],"class_list":["post-239674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lesotho","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-aftermath","tag-cuts","tag-dealing","tag-funding","tag-lesotho","tag-lesotho-news","tag-news","tag-rural","tag-schools","tag-south-africa-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239674","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=239674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239674\/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=239674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}