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How an entire family life changed with just a phone call through my intervention

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Who could have imagined that just a phone call would end up transforming the life of an entire family at Gbegbeyise, a  densely populated community situated under Shaibu-Gbegbeyise district in the Ablekuma West Municipality of the Greater Accra Region of Ghana? Indeed, it came as a shock to me from the onset, but then, in the end, the unimaginable became obvious. Yes, certainly this was a dream that came true, only made possible through the power of journalism utilized by an agent of change like me.  So how did this happen? It all started on the fateful day of July 8, 2023, after a day’s hard work, while I was on my way back from work.  All of a sudden, my mobile phone started ringing, and when I checked, it was an incoming call from a colleague news editor responsible for managing one of the major online news portals in Ghana and beyond.  Roger has never contacted me for quite a while. What could have prompted him to initiate such a call at this time? I kept wondering to m