{"id":48507,"date":"2012-10-08T12:50:16","date_gmt":"2012-10-08T12:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sierraexpressmedia.com\/?p=48507"},"modified":"2012-10-08T12:50:16","modified_gmt":"2012-10-08T12:50:16","slug":"airtel-embraces-thinking-pink-with-divas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/?p=48507","title":{"rendered":"Airtel embraces Thinking Pink with DIVAS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Airtel on Friday 5<sup>th<\/sup> October partnered Thinking Pink Breast Cancer Foundation in promoting health and raising awareness for women in general in the country.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This was lauded by a march pass of the Airtel DIVAS along Siaka Stevens Street and Lightfoot Boston Street respectively.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Speaking to the Human Resource Manager Jestina Betts, she revealed that DIVAS is an initiative she came up with for female empowerment in the workplace. \u201cAs a family, we are trying to push women not only for a job but also in career basis. We want women to be leaders even in the area of Managing Directors and African leaders\u201d Jestina further announced that with these in mind, they had organized a five days program which started on Monday 1<sup>st<\/sup> October wherein Airtel invited Ambassador Haja Alari Cole, Ambassador to Saudi Arabia to speak on the topic \u2013 THE HEIGHT WOMEN CAN GO. On Tuesday, there was a colour splash day featuring Lawyer Glenna Thompson, Wednesday saw a grand luncheon sale which was followed by a sports awareness day on Thursday wherein the coach of F.C Johansen spoke on how women must be pushful; and finally on Friday 5<sup>th<\/sup> there was a people\u2019s awareness at the Hill Valley Hotel where DIVAS was clearly spelt out.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cOur partnership with Thinking Pink Breast Cancer Foundation is to promote health for women in the country\u201d Jestina said, and therefore entreated the male counterparts to support women as women can\u2019t do without them.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Speaking on Breast Cancer, Emilia Lebbie of Thinking Pink said that their partnership with Airtel is to raise awareness on breast cancer. \u00a0Emilia gave some insights on how women should reduce breast cancer, highlighting that women should eat vegetables, exercise to reduce fat, eat healthy food and avoid rubbing cream on the breast etc.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Staff of Airtel then went for a breast cancer check up after the ceremony.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Stay with Sierra Express Media, for your trusted place in news!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<hr align=\"center\" size=\"2\" width=\"100%\" \/>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Airtel on Friday 5th October partnered Thinking Pink Breast Cancer Foundation in promoting health and raising awareness for women in general in the country. This [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":48508,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,1],"tags":[6184,13668,1909,10411],"class_list":["post-48507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","category-uncategorized","tag-airtel-sierra-leone","tag-breast-cancer","tag-health-care","tag-think-pink"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48507\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}