{"id":17376,"date":"2016-02-01T11:57:32","date_gmt":"2016-02-01T11:57:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/listenagain.org\/?p=17376"},"modified":"2016-02-01T11:57:32","modified_gmt":"2016-02-01T11:57:32","slug":"donate-your-unwanted-first-holy-communion-and-confirmation-wear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?p=17376","title":{"rendered":"Donate your Unwanted First Holy Communion and Confirmation Wear!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Listen to George Jacob of Gorta Self Help Africa talking to Noel McGuinness about donating unwanted First Holy Communion and Confirmation wear.  George says that recent studies show that the average Irish family will spend far in excess of \u20ac500 to prepare their son and daughter for these landmark occasions.  However, people shouldn\u2019t need to pay big sums of money on an outfit that a child might wear just the one time and Gorta Self Help Africa is appealing to families to donate unwanted First Holy Communion and Confirmation wear this spring so that it can sell suits and dresses to its customers at a fraction of the price.<br \/>\nNot only can this save people hundreds of euro in costs but also the funds raised from the re-sale of these clothes are donated directly to the agricultural development projects of Gorta Self Help Africa and help end hunger and poverty in some of Africa\u2019s poorest people. To find out more contact (01) 677 8880.<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_7599\"><a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/Northsidetoday-29-01-2016-003.mp3\" title=\"Play\" onclick=\"return powerpress_embed_html5a('7599','http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/Northsidetoday-29-01-2016-003.mp3');\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/powerpress\/playbutton-443.png\" title=\"Play\" alt=\"Play\" style=\"border:0;\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/Northsidetoday-29-01-2016-003.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?powerpress_pinw=17376-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/Northsidetoday-29-01-2016-003.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"Northsidetoday-29-01-2016-003.mp3\">Download<\/a> (Duration: 6:43 &#8212; 9.2MB)<\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?feed=podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Listen to George Jacob of Gorta Self Help Africa talking to Noel McGuinness about donating unwanted First Holy Communion and Confirmation wear. George says that recent studies show that the average Irish family will spend far in excess of \u20ac500 to prepare their son and daughter for these landmark occasions. However, people shouldn\u2019t need to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_7600\"><a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/Northsidetoday-29-01-2016-003.mp3\" title=\"Play\" onclick=\"return powerpress_embed_html5a('7600','http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/Northsidetoday-29-01-2016-003.mp3');\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/powerpress\/playbutton-443.png\" title=\"Play\" alt=\"Play\" style=\"border:0;\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/Northsidetoday-29-01-2016-003.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?powerpress_pinw=17376-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/Northsidetoday-29-01-2016-003.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"Northsidetoday-29-01-2016-003.mp3\">Download<\/a> (Duration: 6:43 &#8212; 9.2MB)<\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?feed=podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":53656,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[166,4261,4258,4260,4259],"class_list":["post-17376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-northside-today","tag-africa","tag-clothes-donations","tag-gorta","tag-poverty","tag-self-help"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17376"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17377,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17376\/revisions\/17377"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/53656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}