{"id":177,"date":"2018-04-10T20:51:18","date_gmt":"2018-04-10T20:51:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rootsafrica.net\/?p=177"},"modified":"2018-04-10T20:51:18","modified_gmt":"2018-04-10T20:51:18","slug":"roots-hands-over-sanitary-pad-making-machine-to-child-brides-in-shamva","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rootsafrica.net\/index.php\/2018\/04\/10\/roots-hands-over-sanitary-pad-making-machine-to-child-brides-in-shamva\/","title":{"rendered":"ROOTS hands over sanitary pad making machine to child brides in Shamva"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rootsafrica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/ambassador.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-178\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rootsafrica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/ambassador-300x198.jpg\" alt=\"ambassador\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rootsafrica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/ambassador-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rootsafrica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/ambassador.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rootsafrica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/SASSY3b.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-156\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rootsafrica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/SASSY3b-300x212.jpg\" alt=\"SASSY3b\" width=\"300\" height=\"212\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rootsafrica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/SASSY3b-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rootsafrica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/SASSY3b-1024x724.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Women empowerment organisation, Roots in partnership with Netherlands Embassy in Zimbabwe donated a sanitary pad making machine to women in Shamva as part of the empowerment agenda.<\/p>\n<p>The donation was part of the district\u2019s belated commemorations of International Women\u2019s Day.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Addressing women, Netherlands Ambassador to Zimbabwe Mrs Barbara Van Hellemond said empowerment of women is critical while Roots executive director Ms Beatrice Savadye noted the machine has been given to victims of child marriages.<\/p>\n<p>Other stakeholders at the belated commemorations said there are a number of projects that women can venture into as a way of transforming their lives.<\/p>\n<p>Zimbabwe is faced with a number of challenges affecting women with the recent one being child marriages which has been condemned by government and its development partners.<\/p>\n<p>This year the International Women\u2019s Day commemorations ran running under the theme, \u201cTransforming Women\u2019s Lives through Economic Empowerment\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Source:\u00a0http:\/\/www.zbc.co.zw\/?p=87232<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Women empowerment organisation, Roots in partnership with Netherlands Embassy in Zimbabwe donated a sanitary pad making machine to women in Shamva as part of the empowerment agenda. The donation was part of the district\u2019s belated commemorations of International Women\u2019s Day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rootsafrica.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rootsafrica.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rootsafrica.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rootsafrica.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rootsafrica.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rootsafrica.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":179,"href":"https:\/\/www.rootsafrica.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177\/revisions\/179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rootsafrica.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rootsafrica.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rootsafrica.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}