{"id":22915,"date":"2016-02-01T08:54:32","date_gmt":"2016-02-01T08:54:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/unilak-students-donate-to-rwamagana-retired\/"},"modified":"2016-02-01T08:54:27","modified_gmt":"2016-02-01T08:54:27","slug":"unilak-students-donate-to-rwamagana-retired","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/unilak-students-donate-to-rwamagana-retired\/","title":{"rendered":"UNILAK students donate to Rwamagana retired soldiers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{Leaders of UNILAK Students\u2019 Council yesterday handed donations to retired soldiers from Muyumbu sector, Rwamagana district that come together under COPAMU cooperative, in recognition of their services towards the liberation of the country.}<\/p>\n<p>The donations included; a sewing machine and sweaters. The leader of students\u2019 delegation, Claude Umurage Ndahiro, said that the support is part of recognizing retirees\u2019 efforts to liberate the nation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen we look into the past, we see that you sacrificed a lot and so pay tribute to your achievements. We credit your bravery and that of fallen comrades. I am sure God stays by your sides. Keep upholding bravery as you started\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou played a role in country\u2019s liberation and we now study in a safe country. In the past it was a shame to be called Rwandan but foreigners now strive to earn Rwanda citizenship,\u201d added Ndahiro.<\/p>\n<p>Robert Musifiwa, the officer in charge of rehabilitating retired soldiers in Eastern Province has commended UNILAK students for supporting the nation in the recognition of retired soldiers for a good job they did.<\/p>\n<p>The president of COPAMU, Vedaste Mudidi, has also commended the students; \u201cThese are our children and future heroes. We thank you our children for the spirit of caring and feeling of concern for other people\u2019s welfare,\u201d he said<\/p>\n<p>One of retired soldiers, John Murigande has adviced students to be honest which will help them become heroes.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cHeroes exist, die and others born. I request you to be honest. It pleases us to stay in a safe country where we struggled for liberty seeing children growing and progressing in it. I wish you would become heroes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Every year Rwanda celebrates the Heroes\u2019 Day on 1st February with various themes centering on Rwandan history and encouraging Rwandans to embrace heroism. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-10348 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/f0b919f7df8d7f6cf8ea04cd422adefb.jpg\" alt=\"Students handing donations to retired soldiers\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{Leaders of UNILAK Students\u2019 Council yesterday handed donations to retired soldiers from Muyumbu sector, Rwamagana district that come together under COPAMU cooperative, in recognition of their services towards the liberation of the country.} The donations included; a sewing machine and sweaters. The leader of students\u2019 delegation, Claude Umurage Ndahiro, said that the support is part [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2000071887,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[75],"byline":[160],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-22915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-social","tag-homenews","byline-theophile-niyitegeka"],"bylines":[{"id":160,"name":"Th\u00e9ophile Niyitegeka","slug":"theophile-niyitegeka","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":3}],"contributors":[{"id":160,"name":"Th\u00e9ophile Niyitegeka","slug":"theophile-niyitegeka","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":3}],"featured_image":{"id":2000071887,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton22915.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton22915.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton22915.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton22915.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton22915.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton22915.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22915","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=22915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22915\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000071887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22915"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=22915"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=22915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}