{"id":1591,"date":"2012-01-19T06:01:59","date_gmt":"2012-01-19T06:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/rwandan-diaspora-tours-iwawa-rehabilitation\/"},"modified":"2012-01-19T06:06:42","modified_gmt":"2012-01-19T06:06:42","slug":"rwandan-diaspora-tours-iwawa-rehabilitation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/rwandan-diaspora-tours-iwawa-rehabilitation\/","title":{"rendered":"Rwandan Diaspora Tours Iwawa Rehabilitation Center"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-1239 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/dsc_0224.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>{{The Rwandan Diaspora yesterday toured Iwawa rehabilitation and vocational skills development Center where former street children receive vocational skills training aimed at orienting them to a hopeful life.}}<\/p>\n<p>During their stay at the Island the youth train in construction, carpentry, tailoring, commercial farming and bee keeping. They also receive necessary psychological support to abandon their former street lifestyles.<\/p>\n<p>Allen Kabandana a student at Iwawa center testified that he was once addicted to cocaine consumption and drug abuse. <\/p>\n<p>His life was completely lost until his relatives took him to Iwawa rehabilitation Center that has transformed him. <\/p>\n<p>Kabandana vows to take the lead in fighting drug abuse among the youth. He considers the center as a free of charge rehabilitation and professional training center.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Ismael Buchanan, the Secretary General of Rwanda Diaspora Network  said that the visit was aimed at having the first hand information about the center as opposed to misinformation spread  abroad. <\/p>\n<p>The diaspora has been misinformed that the center is a confinement centre yet it is rehabilitating the Rwandan youth and also helping them become productive members of society. <\/p>\n<p>Buchanan promised that the Diaspora will go on telling the world the real story of Iwawa.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-1238 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/dsc_0183.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{{The Rwandan Diaspora yesterday toured Iwawa rehabilitation and vocational skills development Center where former street children receive vocational skills training aimed at orienting them to a hopeful life.}} During their stay at the Island the youth train in construction, carpentry, tailoring, commercial farming and bee keeping. They also receive necessary psychological support to abandon their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[277],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-1591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-igihe-com-reporter"],"bylines":[{"id":277,"name":"IGIHE.com Reporter","slug":"igihe-com-reporter","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"contributors":[{"id":277,"name":"IGIHE.com Reporter","slug":"igihe-com-reporter","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1591\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1591"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=1591"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=1591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}