{"id":776,"date":"2014-10-21T17:46:55","date_gmt":"2014-10-21T16:46:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/swindon-and-district\/?p=776"},"modified":"2014-10-21T17:46:55","modified_gmt":"2014-10-21T16:46:55","slug":"swindon-soroptimists-provide-20-backpacks-for-girls-in-africa-to-be-distributed-by-the-charity-marys-meals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/swindon-and-district\/2014\/10\/21\/swindon-soroptimists-provide-20-backpacks-for-girls-in-africa-to-be-distributed-by-the-charity-marys-meals\/","title":{"rendered":"Swindon Soroptimists provide 20 backpacks for girls in Africa to be distributed by the charity Mary&#8217;s Meals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/swindon-and-district\/files\/2014\/10\/Soroptimist-Marys-Meals-rucksacks-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-777\" alt=\"Soroptimist Mary's Meals rucksacks 1\" src=\"\/swindon-and-district\/files\/2014\/10\/Soroptimist-Marys-Meals-rucksacks-1-300x224.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/swindon-and-district\/files\/2014\/10\/Soroptimist-Marys-Meals-rucksacks-1-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/swindon-and-district\/files\/2014\/10\/Soroptimist-Marys-Meals-rucksacks-1-1024x764.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Mary&#8217;s Meals is a charity we have supported in the past and is a charity now adopted by our whole region, SI South West and Channel Islands.\u00a0 We love these distinctive bright pink backpacks and hope they will appeal to the little African girls who will receive them.\u00a0 Each backpack contains a spoon, a dress, flip-flops, a towel, soap, toothbrush, toothpaste, pen, pencil, crayons, notebooks, rubber, ruler, pencil sharpener, pencil case. All these necessities are items British children take for granted, but, for the African girls who have no possessions at all, to be given these things will make a really big difference to their lives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mary&#8217;s Meals is a charity we have supported in the past and is a charity&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":325,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[53,54,52,15],"class_list":["post-776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-club-news","tag-backpacks","tag-making-a-difference","tag-marys-meals","tag-swindon-soroptimists"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Swindon Soroptimists provide 20 backpacks for girls in Africa to be distributed by the charity Mary&#039;s Meals  | News | Blog | Events | SI Swindon and District<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"SI Swindon and District : Blog &amp; News : Swindon Soroptimists provide 20 backpacks for girls in Africa to be distributed by the charity Mary&#039;s Meals : Keep up to date with the latest news, articles and events from the Soroptimists of SI Swindon and District . 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