{"id":50370,"date":"2020-06-11T10:11:21","date_gmt":"2020-06-11T08:11:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/udexpress\/prayers-for-laurens-safe-return-20200610-2\/"},"modified":"2025-03-21T00:48:47","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T22:48:47","slug":"prayers-for-laurens-safe-return-20200610-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/udexpress\/prayers-for-laurens-safe-return-20200610-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Prayers for Lauren\u2019s safe return"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div contenteditable=\"false\" data-embed24=\"Images\" data-pos=\"left\" id=\"embed_e86db2e1\">\n<div class=\"slide\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" data-smallsrc=\"https:\/\/cdn.24.co.za\/files\/Cms\/General\/d\/10048\/7fb6ecbfbc794648bcf59b61e74e5ace.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.24.co.za\/files\/Cms\/General\/d\/10048\/df051fa24d5842a09855e4303987c078.jpg\" title=\"Lauren Kroutz.     photo:SUPPLIED\"><p><\/p>\n<div class=\"caption\">Lauren Kroutz.     photo:SUPPLIED<\/div>\n<div class=\"img_accreditation\"><span class=\"source\" style=\"display:none;\"><\/span><span class=\"photographer\" style=\"display:none;\"><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>WITHIN three weeks the community of Uitenhage managed to raise almost R34 000 for Lauren Kroutz (20) to come back home from Lima, Peru.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lauren, who went to the city of Cusco in Peru six months ago, was left without a job and a place to stay when the Covid-19 virus also struck in Peru.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With the much needed money for her return to South Africa in place thanks to a massive community fundraising effort, Lauren has to overcome one last hurdle:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In order to get back to her country of birth, she and the other South Africans also stuck in Peru, need to travel to S\u00e3o Paulo (a Covid-19 hotspot) in Brazil to hail their flight home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAt this stage, Brazil has the highest rate of transmission in the world,\u201d said Gary Hendricks, who initiated the Run4Lauren virtual fundraiser to bring Lauren to South Africa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She and five other South Africans were transported by the local South African embassy from other parts of the Peru to Lima where they were told they would have to charter a flight back home. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They stayed in Lima for several weeks without any income and no word of the embassy about being repatriated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Back home, family members, friends and teachers at Uitenhage High School, where Lauren matriculated, were concerned about her well-being. 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