{"id":181956,"date":"2021-02-28T13:16:54","date_gmt":"2021-02-28T11:16:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mypr.co.za\/?p=99600"},"modified":"2021-02-28T13:16:54","modified_gmt":"2021-02-28T11:16:54","slug":"converse-doubles-the-pledge-for-student-debt-relief-campaign-kickthedebt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/converse-doubles-the-pledge-for-student-debt-relief-campaign-kickthedebt\/","title":{"rendered":"Converse DOUBLES the Pledge for Student Debt Relief Campaign #Kickthedebt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mypr.co.za\/?attachment_id=99601\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-99601 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/converse-doubles-the-pledge-for-student-debt-relief-campaign-kickthedebt.png\" alt width=\"300\" height=\"128\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now giving away R2 Million towards student debt<\/p>\n<p>Due to an overwhelming response, Converse has doubled the pledge from R1 million&nbsp; and declared a R2 million pledge to the #kickthedebt campaign. Converse&nbsp; acknowledges the need in assistance for students across South Africa and has&nbsp; decided to extend and increase the campaign and its pledge to give more students&nbsp; a chance to kick their debt. The campaign has been extended for another 2 weeks&nbsp; and will end on the 14th March 2021.<\/p>\n<p>The focus of the #kickthedebt campaign is to try and alleviate even a small portion&nbsp; of the result of generational economic depression. Converse recognizes and&nbsp; understands the need to back the South African youth and the campaign aims to&nbsp; make a difference as education is prohibitively expensive, and as a result, student&nbsp; debt is incredibly high. The issue of student debt is a prominent issue South African&nbsp; youths face, with an increasing need for the issue to be erased<\/p>\n<p>Converse has made the level of access to entry for students easy by using digital&nbsp; platforms. To combat those barriers, applicants can enter and access the&nbsp; #KicktheDebt nomination form on the Converse e-commerce website;&nbsp; www.converse<\/p>\n<p>At the end of the nomination phase, both Converse, the influencers and a panel of&nbsp; independent judges will review the nominations and select the final beneficiaries.<\/p>\n<p>For more Ts and Cs regarding the #kickthedebt campaign, visit www.converse.co.za<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mypr.co.za\/contact\/featured\/\">CLICK HERE to submit your press release to MyPR.co.za<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-pagination pagination\">Pages: <span class=\"post-page-numbers current\" aria-current=\"page\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Page <\/span>1<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/mypr.co.za\/converse-doubles-the-pledge-for-student-debt-relief-campaign-kickthedebt\/2\/\" class=\"post-page-numbers\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Page <\/span>2<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mypr.co.za\">Source: MyPR.co.za<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now giving away R2 Million towards student debt Due to an overwhelming response, Converse has doubled the pledge from R1 million&nbsp; and declared a R2 million pledge to the #kickthedebt campaign. Converse&nbsp; acknowledges the need in assistance for students across South Africa and has&nbsp; decided to extend and increase the campaign and its pledge to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":181957,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9021,1],"tags":[3257],"class_list":{"0":"post-181956","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mypr","8":"category-south-africa","9":"tag-mypr","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/converse-doubles-the-pledge-for-student-debt-relief-campaign-kickthedebt.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181956\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}