{"id":19532,"date":"2015-05-16T05:58:27","date_gmt":"2015-05-16T05:58:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/photos-festival-of-culture-held-at-hope-academy\/"},"modified":"2015-05-16T06:03:51","modified_gmt":"2015-05-16T06:03:51","slug":"photos-festival-of-culture-held-at-hope-academy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/photos-festival-of-culture-held-at-hope-academy\/","title":{"rendered":"PHOTOS: Festival of Culture held at Hope Academy Rwanda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{Saturday 9th May saw Hope Academy Rwanda end their Solidarity Campaign 2015 with a Festival of Culture, celebrating the diversity of the school. The motto of the event was: \u201cUnity through diversity\u201d.}<\/p>\n<p>17 nationalities were represented through students and staff, with each dressed in traditional costume.  The programme included songs, dances, and poetry readings before culminating in a fashion show to reveal all the different cultures that make up Hope Academy Rwanda.<\/p>\n<p>Handicrafts were on sale from Rwanda and Kenya, with school staff running stands to explain their own cultures.  Students\u2019 art work was exhibited and a piece of art by the school\u2019s art teacher was auctioned.<\/p>\n<p>The Festival was also the final event in the school\u2019s campaign to raise funds for a rehabilitation centre for street boys, Les Enfant De Dieu, on the outskirts of Kigali.  When everything has been counted, the proceeds will be used to provide food, bedding, and stationery for the boys at the centre.<\/p>\n<p>Hope Academy Rwanda administration would like to thank everyone &#8211; both inside the school and out &#8211; for their support during the Festival and Campaign; we couldn\u2019t have done it without you.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-8077 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/1-52.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-8078 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/2-49.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-8079 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/3-51.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-8080 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/4-45.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-8081 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/5-31.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-8082 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/6-28.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-8083 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/7-26.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-8084 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/8-22.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-8085 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/9-13.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-8086 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/10-12.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-8087 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/11-37.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-8088 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/12-12.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-8089 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/festival_of_culture_har_may09-2015_69_.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-8090 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/festival_of_culture_har_may09-2015_71_.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-8091 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/festival_of_culture_har_may09-2015_95_.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{Saturday 9th May saw Hope Academy Rwanda end their Solidarity Campaign 2015 with a Festival of Culture, celebrating the diversity of the school. The motto of the event was: \u201cUnity through diversity\u201d.} 17 nationalities were represented through students and staff, with each dressed in traditional costume. The programme included songs, dances, and poetry readings before [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2000068589,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[75],"byline":[334],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-19532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts-culture","tag-homenews","byline-igihe-reporter"],"bylines":[{"id":334,"name":"IGIHE Reporter","slug":"igihe-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":334,"name":"IGIHE Reporter","slug":"igihe-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":{"id":2000068589,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton19532.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton19532.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton19532.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton19532.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton19532.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton19532.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19532","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=19532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19532\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000068589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19532"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=19532"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=19532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}