{"id":213060,"date":"2025-11-09T21:00:52","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T19:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-over-1000-students-empowered-to-champion-smart-sustainable-cities\/"},"modified":"2025-11-09T21:00:52","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T19:00:52","slug":"ghana-over-1000-students-empowered-to-champion-smart-sustainable-cities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-over-1000-students-empowered-to-champion-smart-sustainable-cities\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: Over 1,000 Students Empowered to Champion Smart, Sustainable Cities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">Over 1,000 students across five Municipal and Metropolitan Assemblies (MMAs) in the Greater Accra Region have been equipped with knowledge and practical skills to become active agents of change in building people-centered smart cities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\">The beneficiaries were trained in waste management, recycling, air pollution control, and other aspects of environmental sustainability.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">The week-long school engagement tour, organised by the Green Africa Youth Organisation (GAYO) in partnership with key&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202511060550.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>Over 1,000 students across five Municipal and Metropolitan Assemblies (MMAs) in the Greater Accra Region have been equipped with knowledge and practical skills to become active agents of change in building people-centered smart cities. The beneficiaries were trained in waste management, recycling, air pollution control, and other aspects of environmental sustainability. The week-long school engagement [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":213061,"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":[258,256,6733,9613,16264,4508,4509,257,9353,254,6695,6059],"class_list":["post-213060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-champion","tag-cities","tag-empowered","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-news","tag-smart","tag-south-africa-today","tag-students","tag-sustainable"],"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\/213060","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=213060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213060\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}