{"id":259,"date":"2019-04-14T10:20:30","date_gmt":"2019-04-14T10:20:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greenlineafrica.org\/greenlineafrica\/?page_id=259"},"modified":"2026-03-12T10:12:00","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T10:12:00","slug":"helping-the-elderly","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.greenlineafrica.org\/greenlineafrica\/helping-the-elderly\/","title":{"rendered":"Communities in need"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Greenline Africa Team, helped to move an elderly couple, Mr Ngwenya and Rodah, from the rural area into the Victoria Falls Old Age home. They were both in real pain and had only been surviving on porridge once a day. Thanks to Councillor Moyo, the community, the caring staff at the home, VFM and HRDC, Yvonne Jandles &#8211; all went well and Rodah met up with an old friend.<\/p>\n<p><strong>You can make a difference!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Any donation to our rural community projects in and around Victoria Falls that\u00a0supports the elderly and youth such as Mr Ngwenya, Rodah and the\u00a018 year old Thambani is welcome.<\/p>\n<p>A recurrent support from as little as 10 US $ a month adds sustainability and will be life-changing for people like Thambani or Rodah.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">You can also send any amount directly to donate(at)greenlineafrica.org using paypal.com\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">or support our work as a <\/span><a style=\"font-size: 1rem;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.greenlineafrica.org\/greenlineafrica\/volunteer\/\">volunteer<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<style>\r\n        .wpedon-container .wpedon-select,\r\n        .wpedon-container .wpedon-input {\r\n            width: 171px;\r\n            min-width: 171px;\r\n            max-width: 171px;\r\n        }\r\n    <\/style><div class='wpedon-container wpedon-align-left'><form target='_blank' action='https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/cgi-bin\/webscr' method='post' class='wpedon-form'><input type='hidden' name='cmd' value='_donations' \/><input type='hidden' name='business' value='S6FHMN8KKA6NN' \/><input type='hidden' name='currency_code' value='USD' \/><input type='hidden' name='notify_url' value='https:\/\/www.greenlineafrica.org\/greenlineafrica\/wp-admin\/admin-post.php?action=add_wpedon_button_ipn'><input type='hidden' name='lc' value='en_US'><input type='hidden' name='bn' value='WPPlugin_SP'><input type='hidden' name='return' value='http:\/\/www.greenlineafrica.org\/greenlineafrica\/thank-you' \/><input type='hidden' name='cancel_return' value='http:\/\/www.greenlineafrica.org\/greenlineafrica\/cancelled\/' \/><input class='wpedon_paypalbuttonimage' type='image' src='https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/en_US\/i\/btn\/btn_donateCC_LG.gif' border='0' name='submit' alt='Make your payments with PayPal. 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They were both in real pain and had only been surviving on porridge once a day. Thanks to Councillor Moyo, the community, the caring staff at the home, VFM and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenlineafrica.org\/greenlineafrica\/helping-the-elderly\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Communities in need&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":262,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-259","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenlineafrica.org\/greenlineafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenlineafrica.org\/greenlineafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenlineafrica.org\/greenlineafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenlineafrica.org\/greenlineafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenlineafrica.org\/greenlineafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenlineafrica.org\/greenlineafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":431,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenlineafrica.org\/greenlineafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/259\/revisions\/431"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenlineafrica.org\/greenlineafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenlineafrica.org\/greenlineafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}