{"id":68239,"date":"2016-03-06T11:52:00","date_gmt":"2016-03-06T11:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=be8342bfc095258c84ee431e0a003d23"},"modified":"2016-03-06T11:52:00","modified_gmt":"2016-03-06T11:52:00","slug":"news-story-justine-greening-uk-will-match-fund-care-international-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=68239","title":{"rendered":"News story: Justine Greening: UK will match fund CARE International campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>The UK government will double donations to CARE International\u2019s \u2018Help Her Live Learn and Earn\u2019 campaign, International Development Secretary Justine Greening announced at the \u2018Walk In Her Shoes\u2019 march in London today, Sunday 6 March.<\/p>\n<p>The walk along the Thames marked the launch of CARE\u2019s campaign, for which the Department for International Development (DFID) will double up to \u00a3400,000 of donations until 4 June. All the extra funds will go directly to water, sanitation and women\u2019s rights projects in the Afar region of Ethiopia.<\/p>\n<p>This latest announcement forms part of the wider Department for International Development (DFID) UK Aid Match scheme, which match funds public donations to charity appeals for projects to reduce poverty in developing countries, giving the public a say in how the aid budget is spent.<\/p>\n<p>International Development Secretary Justine Greening said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Ethiopia\u2019s drought-prone Afar region is one of the toughest places in the world to be a woman. Girls spend as much as four hours a day collecting water \u2013 time they could be spending in school \u2013 while practices like forced marriage and FGM are common.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last-child\">The UK is at the forefront of efforts to improve the rights and wellbeing of girls and women around the world, which is why we will match all donations to CARE\u2019s excellent campaign. This will help more than 6,000 women in the region get better access to safe water and provide training to improve sanitation.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The march, which began at The Scoop by City Hall, also featured the likes of Annie Lennox, Bianca Jagger and Dr Helen Pankhurst and looked ahead to International Women\u2019s Day on March 8th.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UK government will double donations to CARE International\u2019s \u2018Help Her Live Learn and Earn\u2019 campaign to help thousands of women and girls<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68239"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68239\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}