{"id":2629,"date":"2016-02-24T12:15:41","date_gmt":"2016-02-24T11:15:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/Neilston\/?p=2629"},"modified":"2016-02-24T12:43:59","modified_gmt":"2016-02-24T11:43:59","slug":"fair-trade-rice-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/Neilston\/2016\/02\/24\/fair-trade-rice-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Fair Trade Rice Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just Trading Scotland (JTS), a not-for-profit fair trade organisation, has challenged schools, as well as churches, colleges and other organisations, to sell 90kg of rice \u2013 which is the amount of rice sold that would enable a Malawian farmer to\u00a0pay for a year\u2019s basic secondary education for one child. As you may have heard, Neilston Primary have decided to take on this 90kg Rice Challenge!<\/p>\n<p>We will be selling\u00a0 rice for <strong>\u00a33.00<\/strong> during lunchtime for the duration of <strong>Fairtrade Fortnight \u2013 Monday 29<sup>th<\/sup> February to Friday 11<sup>th<\/sup> March<\/strong> 2016. If you have any questions or would like more information regarding JTS or the Challenge, please feel free to visit <strong>www.jts.co.uk, <\/strong>emailing <strong>info@jts.co.uk<\/strong> or calling <strong>0141 887 2882<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Click link to see email that was sent home: <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/public\/Neilston\/uploads\/sites\/94\/2016\/02\/Letter-for-Parents-rice-challenge.docx\">Letter for Parents rice challenge<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just Trading Scotland (JTS), a not-for-profit fair trade organisation, has challenged schools, as well as churches, colleges and other organisations, to sell 90kg of rice \u2013 which is the amount of rice sold that would enable a Malawian farmer to\u00a0pay for a year\u2019s basic secondary education for one child. As you may have heard, Neilston &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/Neilston\/2016\/02\/24\/fair-trade-rice-challenge\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Fair Trade Rice Challenge&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8518,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/Neilston\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/Neilston\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/Neilston\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/Neilston\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8518"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/Neilston\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2629"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/Neilston\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2634,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/Neilston\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2629\/revisions\/2634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/Neilston\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/Neilston\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/Neilston\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}