{"id":17137,"date":"2014-10-31T06:52:27","date_gmt":"2014-10-31T06:52:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/airtel-staff-donate-blood-to-the-rwanda\/"},"modified":"2014-10-31T06:52:13","modified_gmt":"2014-10-31T06:52:13","slug":"airtel-staff-donate-blood-to-the-rwanda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/airtel-staff-donate-blood-to-the-rwanda\/","title":{"rendered":"Airtel staff donate blood to the Rwanda Biomedical Centre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{{Kigali, Rwanda &#8211; October 31, 2014.}} {Airtel Rwanda staff have donated blood as part of the employee\u2019s contribution to the community. The voluntary exercise took place at the Rwanda Biomedical Center in Nyarugenge.}<\/p>\n<p>Brian Kirungi, Airtel Rwanda\u2019s head of Legal, Regulatory and CSR said, \u201cIt is important to donate blood, not only because it saves lives but it\u2019s a selfless act that contributes to longevity of the beneficiaries\u2019 health. We cannot ignore the importance of good health to the development of our country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added that Airtel Rwanda would continue to rollout a number of social responsibility activities to give back to the community in efforts to contribute to the country in areas of health, education and social wellbeing.<\/p>\n<p>In the same spirit, Airtel staff donned pink T-Shirts as part of the breast cancer awareness campaign held in October every year.<\/p>\n<p>Blood donation drives and breast cancer awareness remain one of the major health initiatives that contribute to saving lives in many African countries.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-7215 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/head_of_legal_regulatory_and_csr_at_airtel_rwanda_mr._brian_kirungi_during_the_blood_donation_exercise.jpg\" alt=\"Head of Legal, Regulatory and CSR at Airtel Rwanda, Mr. Brian Kirungi during the blood donation exercise\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{{Kigali, Rwanda &#8211; October 31, 2014.}} {Airtel Rwanda staff have donated blood as part of the employee\u2019s contribution to the community. The voluntary exercise took place at the Rwanda Biomedical Center in Nyarugenge.} Brian Kirungi, Airtel Rwanda\u2019s head of Legal, Regulatory and CSR said, \u201cIt is important to donate blood, not only because it saves [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2000054761,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-17137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","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":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","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":8}],"featured_image":{"id":2000054761,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton17137.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton17137.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton17137.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton17137.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton17137.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton17137.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17137","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17137\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000054761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17137"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=17137"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=17137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}