{"id":28888,"date":"2016-07-27T12:36:51","date_gmt":"2016-07-27T10:36:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=28888"},"modified":"2016-07-27T12:36:52","modified_gmt":"2016-07-27T10:36:52","slug":"briton-raises-k25-million-for-malawian-orphans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2016\/07\/27\/briton-raises-k25-million-for-malawian-orphans\/","title":{"rendered":"Briton raises K25 million for Malawian orphans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>British citizen, Brendan Rendall, has so far raised K25 million to go towards the construction of a science block at Friends of Mulanje Orphans (Fomo) base in Mulanje.<\/p>\n<p>Rendall embarked on a fundraising run from Chitipa to Nsanje on June 29 this year. He finished the exercise within 27 days, after covering a distance of 1, 139 kilometres.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am glad that I have achieved what I set out to do. So far, I have raised K25 million and I expect more funds [to trickle in] because I still expect contributions from other people. I expect to reach out to 5, 000 children through my intervention,\u201d said Rendall on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Rendall was covering a distance of 40 kilometres a day, and arrived in Nsanje without any health concerns.<\/p>\n<p>Fomo was founded in 2000 by United Kingdom-based Mary and Keith Woodworth. The organisation manages 13 orphan centres around Mulanje which between them provide security, education and support to 6,000 orphans .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British citizen, Brendan Rendall, has so far raised K25 million to go towards the construction of a science block at Friends of Mulanje Orphans (Fomo) base in Mulanje. Rendall embarked on a fundraising run from Chitipa to Nsanje on June 29 this year. He finished the exercise within 27 days, after covering a distance of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":28889,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28888"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28890,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28888\/revisions\/28890"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}