{"id":34778,"date":"2021-06-01T23:23:19","date_gmt":"2021-06-01T23:23:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=34778"},"modified":"2021-06-01T23:23:19","modified_gmt":"2021-06-01T23:23:19","slug":"why-students-in-south-africa-are-turning-to-food-banks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=34778","title":{"rendered":"Why students in South Africa are turning to food banks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Before the pandemic around a third of university students in South Africa were going to class hungry, according to research. <\/p>\n<p>Now that problem is getting worse as part time jobs have dried up during lockdown, and students\u2019 families have lost work. <\/p>\n<p>Bianca Nonhlanhla Skhosana is a fourth year medical student at the University of The Witwaterstrand in Johannesburg.\u00a0She is one of hundreds of students at the uni whose had to turn to a food parcel programme for help. <\/p>\n<p><i class=\"ssrcss-xbdn93-ItalicText e5tfeyi2\">Reporter and video journalist: Olivia Le Poidevin, BBC Minute<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\\\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-africa-57315213\\\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before the pandemic around a third of university students in South Africa were going to class hungry, according to research. Now that problem is getting worse as part time jobs have dried up during lockdown, and students\u2019 families have lost work. Bianca Nonhlanhla Skhosana is a fourth year medical student [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34779,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hindi-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/p09k7p74.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34778\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/34779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}