{"id":182921,"date":"2024-10-20T06:37:32","date_gmt":"2024-10-20T04:37:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-govt-urged-to-invest-in-technological-devices-for-visually-impaired-persons\/"},"modified":"2024-10-20T06:37:32","modified_gmt":"2024-10-20T04:37:32","slug":"ghana-govt-urged-to-invest-in-technological-devices-for-visually-impaired-persons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-govt-urged-to-invest-in-technological-devices-for-visually-impaired-persons\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: Govt Urged to Invest in Technological Devices for Visually-Impaired Persons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">Ghana yesterday joined the rest of the world to commemorate International White Cane Day with a call on government to invest in technological devices needed by visually-impaired persons in order to help them reach their full potentials.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"44\">The Country Programme Coordinator of the Holistic Development Programme for Visually Impaired Children (HODVIC), Jeremiah Badu Shayar, said cost and access to assistive devices for the visually impaired population in Ghana remained a challenge compounding their&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202410170568.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ghana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ghana\/\">Ghana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ghana yesterday joined the rest of the world to commemorate International White Cane Day with a call on government to invest in technological devices needed by visually-impaired persons in order to help them reach their full potentials. The Country Programme Coordinator of the Holistic Development Programme for Visually Impaired Children (HODVIC), Jeremiah Badu Shayar, said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":182922,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4507],"tags":[258,256,19292,4508,4509,4357,11585,257,10183,254,16954,6206,49785],"class_list":["post-182921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-devices","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-govt","tag-invest","tag-news","tag-persons","tag-south-africa-today","tag-technological","tag-urged","tag-visuallyimpaired"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182921\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}