{"id":87675,"date":"2026-04-12T20:22:41","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T20:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=87675"},"modified":"2026-04-12T20:22:41","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T20:22:41","slug":"female-rickshaw-drivers-in-sierra-leone-rise-above-stigma-to-earn-a-living-and-empower-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/04\/12\/female-rickshaw-drivers-in-sierra-leone-rise-above-stigma-to-earn-a-living-and-empower-women\/","title":{"rendered":"Female rickshaw drivers in Sierra Leone rise above stigma to earn a living and empower women"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA20DtVa.img?w=800&amp;h=435&amp;q=60&amp;m=2&amp;f=jpg\" alt=\"Sierra Leone Women Drivers:\" width=\"555\" height=\"370\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As the late afternoon sun settles over Freetown\u2019s main transit park, Hawa Mansaray pulls up her motorized three-wheeled vehicle and steps away for a break and to pray. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/uknews\/female-rickshaw-drivers-in-sierra-leone-rise-above-stigma-to-earn-a-living-and-empower-women\/ar-AA20CWqe?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=69dbf7f3c0374839855a6bf19d0425e9&amp;ei=209#image=5\">Read\u00a0 More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>As the late afternoon sun settles over Freetown\u2019s main transit park, Hawa Mansaray pulls up her motorized three-wheeled vehicle and steps away&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":87676,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-87675","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Sierra-Leone-women-drivers.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87675"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87677,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87675\/revisions\/87677"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}