{"id":6629,"date":"2021-01-10T23:30:47","date_gmt":"2021-01-10T23:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ajws.org\/?p=31178"},"modified":"2021-01-10T23:30:47","modified_gmt":"2021-01-10T23:30:47","slug":"town-criers-and-hand-stitched-masks-how-an-ajws-grantee-halted-covid-19-in-kenyas-lamu-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/10\/town-criers-and-hand-stitched-masks-how-an-ajws-grantee-halted-covid-19-in-kenyas-lamu-island\/","title":{"rendered":"Town Criers and Hand-Stitched Masks: How an AJWS Grantee Halted COVID-19 in Kenya\u2019s Lamu Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When Shee Kibwana Shee was growing up in Lamu Island, Kenya, he always dreamed of becoming a journalist \u2014 reporting the news that mattered most to his community and bringing people together. Decades later, he&#8217;s doing exactly that, but in a way he never expected: For the past 15 years, Shee has been Lamu\u2019s town &#8230;<a class=\"btn btn-more btn-blue\" href=\"https:\/\/ajws.org\/blog\/covid-kenya-lamu\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/ajws.org\/blog\/covid-kenya-lamu\/\">Town Criers and Hand-Stitched Masks: How an AJWS Grantee Halted COVID-19 in Kenya\u2019s Lamu Island<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/ajws.org\/\">American Jewish World Service - AJWS<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/ajws.org\/blog\/covid-kenya-lamu\/\">American Jewish World Service \u2013 AJWS<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Shee Kibwana Shee was growing up in Lamu Island, Kenya, he always dreamed of becoming a journalist \u2014 reporting the news that mattered most to his community and bringing people together. Decades later, he&#8217;s doing exactly that, but in a way he&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":455,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1303],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6629"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/455"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6629"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6630,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6629\/revisions\/6630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}