{"id":21012,"date":"2021-10-02T16:04:29","date_gmt":"2021-10-02T15:04:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/?p=21012"},"modified":"2021-10-02T16:04:51","modified_gmt":"2021-10-02T15:04:51","slug":"the-dorcas-dress-project-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/?p=21012","title":{"rendered":"The Dorcas Dress Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><u><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Dorcas-Dress.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-21013\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Dorcas-Dress-300x153.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"153\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Dorcas-Dress-300x153.png 300w, https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Dorcas-Dress-1024x523.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Dorcas-Dress-768x392.png 768w, https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Dorcas-Dress-148x76.png 148w, https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Dorcas-Dress-31x16.png 31w, https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Dorcas-Dress-38x19.png 38w, https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Dorcas-Dress-421x215.png 421w, https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Dorcas-Dress.png 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>A letter from Maria Skoyles<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The PCC has kindly agreed to support <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dorcasdressproject.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Dorcas Dress Project<\/a> in prayer and with bucket appeals as the need arises.&nbsp; Maria has been invited to talk at an inner city church in Leicester on Sunday.&nbsp; Leicester is the capital of fashion manufacturing in the UK, with 1000 factories employing 10,000 garment workers, who are mostly from marginalised communities living in the city.&nbsp; There is huge concern for this majority BAME female workforce&nbsp; as there are numerous reports of exploitation, with workers receiving well below the minimum wage for their work.&nbsp; Please pray for us as we take steps to set up a sewing hub, supporting those in poverty, sharing Jesus\u2019 love, and making a prophetic statement to the industry that clothing manufacture needs to be, and can be, fair and just.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A letter from Maria Skoyles The PCC has kindly agreed to support The Dorcas Dress Project in prayer and with bucket appeals as the need arises.&nbsp; Maria has been invited to talk at an inner city church in Leicester on Sunday.&nbsp; Leicester is the capital of fashion manufacturing in the UK, with 1000 factories employing 10,000 garment workers, who are mostly from&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community","category-news","ctfw-no-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21012"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21015,"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21012\/revisions\/21015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}