{"id":20051,"date":"2013-05-30T15:09:10","date_gmt":"2013-05-30T13:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/no-state-funded-rehabilitation-centre-for-children-in-the-ec\/"},"modified":"2013-05-30T15:09:10","modified_gmt":"2013-05-30T13:09:10","slug":"no-state-funded-rehabilitation-centre-for-children-in-the-ec","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/no-state-funded-rehabilitation-centre-for-children-in-the-ec\/","title":{"rendered":"No state-funded rehabilitation centre for children in the EC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"wpsr_floatbts_anchor\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>As part of Child Protection Week, the DA will use the committee meetings at the legislature to demand the opening of a rehab centre in the province given the immense social issues faced by children here.<\/p>\n<p>But the campaign for a rehab centre in the Eastern Cape must continue, and it is a fight for everyone who values the rights of children to dignity.<\/p>\n<p>Research has shown that most youth perpetrators of violent crimes were under the influence of alcohol and drugs at the time of committing criminal offences.<\/p>\n<p>The Eastern Cape has seen a rise in sexual assault cases and other crimes involving child offenders.<\/p>\n<p>Many of these youth are from abusive and dysfunctional family backgrounds where alcohol abuse is rife; they in turn then also become trapped in the cycle of substance abuse and violence.<\/p>\n<p>They start experimenting with drugs from a young age as a mechanism to escape from their undesirable home circumstances and at the end, they become addicted.<\/p>\n<p>Many innocent children and adults are victims of crime daily under the hands of youth with substance abuse problems.<\/p>\n<p>Drugs should not be left to destroy the lives of many children who could have otherwise made valuable contributions to society.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Veliswa Mvenya, MPL<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of Child Protection Week, the DA will use the committee meetings at the legislature to demand the opening of a rehab centre in the province given the immense social issues faced by children here. But the campaign for a rehab centre in the Eastern Cape must continue, and it is a fight for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[1289,5],"class_list":{"0":"post-20051","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-mype","8":"tag-port-elizabeth-2","9":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20051","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20051\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}