{"id":11408,"date":"2020-12-18T17:51:06","date_gmt":"2020-12-18T17:51:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/?p=11408"},"modified":"2020-12-18T17:51:06","modified_gmt":"2020-12-18T17:51:06","slug":"malawi-archdiocese-of-blantyre-ycw-donates-to-the-elderly-in-mwanza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/2020\/12\/18\/malawi-archdiocese-of-blantyre-ycw-donates-to-the-elderly-in-mwanza\/","title":{"rendered":"MALAWI: Archdiocese of Blantyre YCW Donates to the Elderly in Mwanza"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Edgar Temwanani Nyirenda<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Young Christian Workers (YCW) in the Archdiocese of Blantyre on Sunday, 13<sup>th<\/sup> December 2020 conducted a charity work at St Paul\u2019s (Mwanza) Parish where they donated clothes and sanitisers to the elderly.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Speaking after receiving the donation, one of the beneficiaries, Rose Jana commended YCW in the Archdiocese for clothing them and giving them hand sanitisers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cI was happy when I was considered for this donation, we are to be protected from COVID-19 as we use the hand sanitisers\u201d Said Jana.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Concurring with Jana, Archdiocese of Blantyre YCW President Augustine Mwalwanda said the donation will help in fight against the spread of the novel Coronavirus that has claimed thousands of people\u2019s lives around the world.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u2018We are happy we have donated assorted clothes and sanitisers to over 400 women in Mwanza deanery. Yes, we are still facing the COVID -19 pandemic but that cannot stop us from doing good. The work of Jesus Christ has to be done anytime, at all times,\u201d said Mwalwanda.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Parish Priest of St Paul\u2019s Parish Rev. Fr. John Chitsulo commended the YCW members for the donation describing it as \u201cChristmas gift\u201d to the elderly in the district.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cOur grannies have gone home while wearing smiles and this already marked to them the beginning of Christmas. The items our grannies have received will surely better their lives,\u201d said Fr. Chitsulo.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The donation on Sunday has witness 415 elderly women benefiting from YCW\u2019s helping hand through Development Aid from People to People (DAPP) that supplied clothes to Movement.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Each year, YCW in the Archdiocese of Blantyre conducts a charity work to reach to the people that need help.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Archdiocese of Blantyre YCW has 260 enrolled members in six deaneries out of eight deaneries that the Archdiocese has. The movement of YCW strives to See, Judge and Act on issues in respective societies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Edgar Temwanani Nyirenda Young Christian Workers (YCW) in the Archdiocese of Blantyre on Sunday, 13th&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11367,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-amecea-news","category-malawi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11408"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11409,"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11408\/revisions\/11409"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}