{"id":1082,"date":"2018-06-15T12:26:38","date_gmt":"2018-06-15T11:26:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gursewingmachines.com\/blog\/?p=1082"},"modified":"2020-02-26T12:14:00","modified_gmt":"2020-02-26T12:14:00","slug":"video-how-brother-sewing-machines-supported-gurs-charity-kilimanjaro-climb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gursewingmachines.com\/blog\/video-how-brother-sewing-machines-supported-gurs-charity-kilimanjaro-climb\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: how Brother Sewing Machines supported GUR\u2019s charity Kilimanjaro climb"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>A special <em>&#8220;Thank you&#8221;<\/em> from GUR!<\/h2>\n<p><strong>A group described as comprising of\u00a0<em>\u201cordinary individuals\u201d<\/em>\u00a0consisted of nineteen people with no professional trackers who came together with the sole aim of supporting\u00a0Kericho District Hospital in Kenya.<\/strong><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The group first became aware of the plight of the Kericho community a couple of years ago when they learned of \u00a0the terrible circumstances afflicting them \u2013 that mothers and babies were dying in the hospital because of a lack of facilities and equipment.<\/p>\n<h3>See the full documentary video<\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zn3hUHgQKlw?rel=0\" width=\"682\" height=\"388\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<blockquote><p><em><strong>\u201cBrother\u2019s welcome intervention supplied a significant boost to\u00a0the efforts of the group, providing a huge benefit for the community of Kericho. We are so pleased that the months of planning by a number of determined individuals and subsequent huge physical effort paid off so well.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<hr \/>\n<p>The total amount raised so far is around the\u00a0\u00a370,000 mark \u2013 a figure that was considerably enhanced by the fact that all the money raised is going towards proving essential new facilities and support for the mothers and babies.<\/p>\n<p>The entire group travelled at their own expense and paid for all of their own food, hotels and other expenses\u00a0so that all\u00a0the funds raised could go to this worthwhile cause.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gursewingmachines.com\/blog\/brother-sewing-machines-support-gurs-charity-kilimanjaro-climb\/?utm_source=GUR+Subscribers&amp;utm_campaign=a99407f937-Kilimanjaro-Awareness-Email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_cbb4194c38-a99407f937-15756205&amp;mc_cid=a99407f937&amp;mc_eid=bd91450760\"><strong>Read more \u00bb<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A special &#8220;Thank you&#8221; from GUR! A group described as comprising of\u00a0\u201cordinary individuals\u201d\u00a0consisted of nineteen people with no professional trackers who came together with the sole aim of supporting\u00a0Kericho District Hospital in Kenya.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1086,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[73],"class_list":["post-1082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-brother","tag-brother-sewing-machines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gursewingmachines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gursewingmachines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gursewingmachines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gursewingmachines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gursewingmachines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1082"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.gursewingmachines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1187,"href":"https:\/\/www.gursewingmachines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1082\/revisions\/1187"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gursewingmachines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gursewingmachines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gursewingmachines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gursewingmachines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}