7,000 Widows and Counting: What the McDan Foundation intervention reveals about Ghana’s social safety nets

The sight was both inspiring and unsettling. Inspiring, because compassion was on full display. Unsettling, because it revealed a truth too stark to ignore—thousands of widows still depend on charity for survival.


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