{"id":14489,"date":"2020-03-11T09:40:27","date_gmt":"2020-03-11T06:40:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/?p=14489"},"modified":"2020-03-11T09:40:30","modified_gmt":"2020-03-11T06:40:30","slug":"big-hearted-fortebet-commits-shs15m-to-fighting-sickle-cell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/2020\/03\/11\/big-hearted-fortebet-commits-shs15m-to-fighting-sickle-cell\/","title":{"rendered":"BIG-HEARTED: Fortebet Commits Shs15m To Fighting Sickle Cell"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fortebet,\nUganda\u2019s betting giant has continued to show its commitment to helping Ugandans\nlive a better life. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In this\nline, Fortebet has committed a whole 15 million shillings to fighting the\ndeadly sickle cell disease. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This\nmoney was handed over to Raising Hope International Friends, an organisation\nthat works hand-in-hand with the government of Uganda to fight the scourge. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The money\nwas handed over in two phases. One, 10 million went to boosting the Jinja\nSickle Cell Marathon 2020 that took place over the weekend. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Another 5\nmillion was handed over to the Sickle Cell clinic. \u201cAvailable information\nindicates that 20,000 babies are born with sickle cell every year. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Unfortunately,\ndue to inadequate treatment and care, 80% of them die before the age of 5. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is very worrying and is the main reason we came on board to save lives,\u201d said John Nanyumba while handing over the cheque shortly after the Jinja marathon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fortebet, Uganda\u2019s betting giant has continued to show its commitment to helping Ugandans live a better life. In this line, Fortebet has committed a whole 15 million shillings to fighting the deadly sickle cell disease. This money was handed over to Raising Hope International Friends, an organisation that works hand-in-hand with the government of Uganda [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27983,"featured_media":14490,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_paywall_metabox":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27983"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14489"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14491,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14489\/revisions\/14491"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}