{"id":197040,"date":"2025-04-29T11:51:49","date_gmt":"2025-04-29T09:51:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-cedi-by-cedi-hereafter-ghanas-digital-crowdfunding-efforts-saves-vulnerable-lives\/"},"modified":"2025-04-29T11:51:49","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T09:51:49","slug":"ghana-cedi-by-cedi-hereafter-ghanas-digital-crowdfunding-efforts-saves-vulnerable-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-cedi-by-cedi-hereafter-ghanas-digital-crowdfunding-efforts-saves-vulnerable-lives\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: Cedi By Cedi, Hereafter Ghana&#8217;s Digital Crowdfunding Efforts Saves Vulnerable Lives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">For two long years, Hansawu, a mother from Tishigu in Ghana&#8217;s Northern region, witnessed her young son, Umar&#8217;s, health decline. Despite numerous hospital visits and doctors&#8217; consultations, Umar&#8217;s symptoms were still undiagnosed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">Frustration and desperation grew as Umar&#8217;s stomach swelled, accompanied by a variety of unusual symptoms that evaded diagnosis. Hansawu, in her desperation, turned to traditional healers, only to be met with disappointment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">Doctors at Tamale Teaching Hospital eventually&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202504290043.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>For two long years, Hansawu, a mother from Tishigu in Ghana&#8217;s Northern region, witnessed her young son, Umar&#8217;s, health decline. Despite numerous hospital visits and doctors&#8217; consultations, Umar&#8217;s symptoms were still undiagnosed. Frustration and desperation grew as Umar&#8217;s stomach swelled, accompanied by a variety of unusual symptoms that evaded diagnosis. Hansawu, in her desperation, turned [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":197041,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4507],"tags":[258,256,28395,50742,9633,6357,4508,4509,8226,8485,257,10641,254,5143],"class_list":["post-197040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-crowdfunding","tag-digital","tag-efforts","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-ghanas","tag-lives","tag-news","tag-saves","tag-south-africa-today","tag-vulnerable"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.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\/197040","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=197040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197040\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}