{"id":7478,"date":"2018-05-24T12:30:27","date_gmt":"2018-05-24T10:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/?p=7478"},"modified":"2018-05-24T11:22:28","modified_gmt":"2018-05-24T09:22:28","slug":"never-mind-the-elephants-there-are-girls-to-empower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/7478\/","title":{"rendered":"Never mind the elephants, there are girls to empower!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A correspondent tells me many years ago he began donating to\u00a0Friends of Conservation, a charity concerned with saving endangered wildlife in Africa, particularly elephants and rhinoceroses. Earlier this week he received <a href=\"https:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Friends-of-Conservation.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this letter<\/a> from them, the fourth paragraph of which I reproduce below:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>We are setting up an empowerment initiative in schools, primarily to help girls boost their confidence and increase self-esteem. As well as self-defence classes for girls and boys, there&#8217;ll be sessions in safe spaces where girls can discuss issues and become more aware of their rights; and classes where boys can will be encouraged to have greater respect for girls. We hope to help foster a learning environment where girls and boys are treated equally and have the same opportunities.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Spending charitable donations on woke feminist causes saves how many elephants and rhinos, I wonder? Needless to say, this has cost them at least one donor. At this point, I think it&#8217;s safe to assume every charity has been thoroughly corrupted in this manner. Can anyone point with confidence to one that hasn&#8217;t?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A correspondent tells me many years ago he began donating to\u00a0Friends of Conservation, a charity concerned with saving endangered wildlife in Africa, particularly elephants and rhinoceroses. Earlier this week he received this letter from them, the fourth paragraph of which &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/7478\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[65,79],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7478"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7478"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7479,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7478\/revisions\/7479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}