{"id":23840,"date":"2016-03-11T08:59:17","date_gmt":"2016-03-11T08:59:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/nyaruguru-residents-hail-decentralization-policy\/"},"modified":"2016-03-11T08:58:45","modified_gmt":"2016-03-11T08:58:45","slug":"nyaruguru-residents-hail-decentralization-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/nyaruguru-residents-hail-decentralization-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"Nyaruguru residents hail decentralization policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{Nyaruguru residents have hailed good government policies that have seen their lives getting transformed, saying they would look for hard labour jobs  in the neighbouring Burundi, a situation that has now changed.}<\/p>\n<p>Immacul\u00e9e Nyirashumbusho, 70, resident of Ruheru sector, says they used to live in sweeping poverty which has drastically reduced since the implementation of  decentralization policy, allowing citizens\u2019 participation in governance issues.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am still living in Ruheru where I was born .We have started experiencing development after the genocide perpetrated against Tutsi in 1994. We were living in poverty. We could only find food when our husbands went in Burundi for hard labor. People had nicknamed us \u2018Abatebo\u2019 over living in extreme poverty. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe no  longer face food shortage, our children have access to education and we receive support to boos our activities .These development reflect good leadership of President Paul Kagame\u2019s government that introduced decentralization, \u201cshe added.<\/p>\n<p>Other women from Nyaruguru told IGIHE that they run development projects and collaborate with their husbands for the progress of the family as a result of good governance.<\/p>\n<p>An officer with Action Aid, Parfaite Uwonkunda, said that Nyaruguru residents\u2019 livelihoods have considerably improved. <\/p>\n<p>Action Aid donated 25 goats to women from various cooperatives of Ruheru sector during the celebration of the international day of women as in a bid to support their economic performance. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-10896 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/bemeza_ko_imiyoborere_myiza_yabakuye_ku_ngoyi_yo_kudeya_.jpg\" alt=\"Nyaruguru residents  attendeding the celebration of the International Day of Women \" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-10895 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/bavuga_ko_imiyoborere_myiza_yatumye_abaterankunga_baza_kubashyigikira.jpg\" alt=\"Nyaruguru residents who received goats donations from Action Aid during the International Day of Women \" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-10897 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/action_aid_yaboroje_ihene_ngo_bakomeze_iterambere.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{Nyaruguru residents have hailed good government policies that have seen their lives getting transformed, saying they would look for hard labour jobs in the neighbouring Burundi, a situation that has now changed.} Immacul\u00e9e Nyirashumbusho, 70, resident of Ruheru sector, says they used to live in sweeping poverty which has drastically reduced since the implementation of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[160],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-23840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","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":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23840","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=23840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23840\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23840"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=23840"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=23840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}