{"id":5166,"date":"2020-03-20T09:17:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-20T09:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.ja-africa.org\/?p=5166"},"modified":"2026-01-15T12:46:30","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T12:46:30","slug":"ja-africa-reacts-to-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.ja-africa.org\/backend\/ja-africa-reacts-to-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"JA Africa Reacts to COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As governments across Africa react to the rapid spread of\nthe coronavirus across the continent and the globe with school closures, JA\nAfrica\u2019s work will be affected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our thoughts and prayers are with those who are affected by\nthis virus and we are doing our part to stop its further spread. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>JA Africa staff are currently working from home until we\nreceive other directives about public health and safety.&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Within JA Member Nations in Africa, programs, including\nplanned trainings for staff and student events have been suspended.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Similarly, travel has also been suspended indefinitely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The wellbeing of young Africans, of our staff and\nstakeholders is a paramount consideration for us and we urge everyone to\nobserve all protocols from the authorities designed to prioritize our health\nand safety.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I also want to take this opportunity to thank our donors,\nwhose support for us during these challenging times has been unwavering.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Best wishes,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cms.ja-africa.org\/backend\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/elizabeth-signature-300x134-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"width:173px;height:78px\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Elizabeth Elango Bintliff<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">CEO, JA Africa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As governments across Africa react to the rapid spread of the coronavirus across the continent and the globe with school closures, JA Africa\u2019s work will be affected. Our thoughts and prayers are with those who are affected by this virus and we are doing our part to stop its further spread. JA Africa staff are &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.ja-africa.org\/backend\/ja-africa-reacts-to-covid-19\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">JA Africa Reacts to COVID-19<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5167,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":{"featured_alumni_video":"","year":""},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cms.ja-africa.org\/backend\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/COVID-19-Banner.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.ja-africa.org\/backend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.ja-africa.org\/backend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.ja-africa.org\/backend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.ja-africa.org\/backend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.ja-africa.org\/backend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5166"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms.ja-africa.org\/backend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10249,"href":"https:\/\/cms.ja-africa.org\/backend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5166\/revisions\/10249"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.ja-africa.org\/backend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.ja-africa.org\/backend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.ja-africa.org\/backend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.ja-africa.org\/backend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}