{"id":2143,"date":"2019-05-26T15:10:31","date_gmt":"2019-05-26T15:10:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.karongadiocese.org\/?p=2143"},"modified":"2019-05-26T15:10:31","modified_gmt":"2019-05-26T15:10:31","slug":"st-marys-trains-36-students-in-national-flag-management","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.karongadiocese.org\/index.php\/st-marys-trains-36-students-in-national-flag-management\/","title":{"rendered":"St Mary\u2019s Trains 36 Students in National Flag Management"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">By Reshas Nyondo<\/span><\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Thirty-six students selected from across classes have been trained in managing the national flag at St Mary\u2019s Karonga Girls\u2019 Secondary School as decreed by Karonga Diocese\u2019s Chief Shepherd, Bishop Martin Anwel Mtumbuka.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Last year in December, Bishop Mtumbuka said with the training, students would among others, cultivate an aura of respect for the protected flag which would, in turn, help them develop a spirit of patriotism.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">One of the trainees, Shalom Chiwaya (Form 3), said managing the flag was not only elating but also helped her appreciate its significance.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThese days, after the training, I do not only appreciate the importance of the flag but also the prayer that is the national anthem when we are raising it,\u201d said Shalom.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Wisdom Mawowa, the teacher who trained the students, said the training took three days.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cWe identified 36 students who were further divided into four groups of nine. Each group has the task to parade and ask for permission from the head teacher to raise the national flag every Monday after assembly announcements, but before classes commence. The flag is raised whilst the national anthem is being sang,\u201d emphasized Mawowa.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">After the training, an historic raise of the flag was observed on a Monday; May 13, 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Reshas Nyondo Thirty-six students selected from across classes have been trained in managing the national flag at St Mary\u2019s Karonga Girls\u2019 Secondary School as decreed by Karonga Diocese\u2019s Chief Shepherd, Bishop Martin Anwel Mtumbuka. Last year in December, Bishop Mtumbuka said with the training, students would among others, cultivate an aura of respect for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2144,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"iawp_total_views":15,"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-st-marys-girls-secondary-school"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karongadiocese.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karongadiocese.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karongadiocese.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karongadiocese.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karongadiocese.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.karongadiocese.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2143\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karongadiocese.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karongadiocese.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karongadiocese.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karongadiocese.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}