{"id":46662,"date":"2026-05-19T04:17:24","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T02:17:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/ford-steps-forward-to-support-flood-stricken-communities-across-south-africa\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T04:17:24","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T02:17:24","slug":"ford-steps-forward-to-support-flood-stricken-communities-across-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/ford-steps-forward-to-support-flood-stricken-communities-across-south-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Ford Steps Forward to Support Flood-Stricken Communities Across South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ford Philanthropy, together with disaster relief organisation Gift of the Givers, is supporting emergency flood relief efforts across several provinces following severe flooding that has devastated communities in the Northern Cape, Free State, Eastern Cape and south-Western Cape.<\/p>\n

As relentless rains and rising floodwaters cut off roads and isolated communities, Ford Philanthropy partnered with Gift of the Givers to help deliver critical aid, including food parcels, bottled water, blankets and emergency supplies to affected families.<\/p>\n

In the Northern Cape, floodwaters near Kuruman created dozens of isolated “islands”, leaving families stranded and unreachable by road. Working alongside the South African National Defence Force (SANDF) and the South African Police Service (SAPS), Gift of the Givers expanded relief efforts into the skies, deploying helicopters to airlift essential supplies to communities cut off by the floods.<\/p>\n

“Having strong partnerships is key to…<\/p>\n

\n

Read more on Arrive Alive <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ford Philanthropy, together with disaster relief organisation Gift of the Givers, is supporting emergency flood relief efforts across several provinces following severe flooding that has devastated communities in the Northern Cape, Free State, Eastern Cape and south-Western Cape. As relentless rains and rising floodwaters cut off roads and isolated communities, Ford Philanthropy partnered with Gift […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46663,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/\/ckfinder\/userfiles\/images\/11581MainImage.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[99,852,2371,310],"class_list":["post-46662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-accidents","tag-eastern-cape","tag-free-state","tag-northern-cape","tag-western-cape"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/\/ckfinder\/userfiles\/images\/11581MainImage.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46662\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}