{"id":184148,"date":"2024-11-08T01:27:52","date_gmt":"2024-11-07T23:27:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-hunger-is-killing-us-physically-challenged-cry-for-employment\/"},"modified":"2024-11-08T01:27:52","modified_gmt":"2024-11-07T23:27:52","slug":"liberia-hunger-is-killing-us-physically-challenged-cry-for-employment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-hunger-is-killing-us-physically-challenged-cry-for-employment\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: &#8216;Hunger Is Killing Us&#8217; &#8211; Physically Challenged Cry for Employment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">Monrovia \u2014 People with Disabilities (PWDs) make up 16 percent of Liberia&#8217;s population, <a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.sida.se\/app\/uploads\/2021\/05\/07125814\/rights-of-persons-with-disabilities-liberia.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according to Unicef<\/a>. However, challenges continue to abound for them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"39\">Wilfred Gewon, 47, is a visually impaired man who holds a master&#8217;s in Inclusive Education from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.keralauniversity.ac.in\/home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">University of Kerala<\/a> in India. Despite his impressive education credentials, he says he fights a daunting battle daily to seek gainful employment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">&#8220;Whenever we talk about employment, some state officials always make a reference to Noah Zarwu&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202411070203.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Liberia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/liberia\/\">Liberia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monrovia \u2014 People with Disabilities (PWDs) make up 16 percent of Liberia&#8217;s population, according to Unicef. However, challenges continue to abound for them. Wilfred Gewon, 47, is a visually impaired man who holds a master&#8217;s in Inclusive Education from the University of Kerala in India. Despite his impressive education credentials, he says he fights a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":184149,"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":[1086],"tags":[258,256,10306,11188,7528,6223,7805,4712,1107,257,25332,254],"class_list":["post-184148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-challenged","tag-cry","tag-employment","tag-hunger","tag-killing","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-news","tag-physically","tag-south-africa-today"],"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\/184148","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=184148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184148\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}