{"id":240,"date":"2011-05-24T11:40:33","date_gmt":"2011-05-24T11:40:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/rwamagana-residents-raise-rfw2-5m-to-assist\/"},"modified":"2011-05-26T08:26:29","modified_gmt":"2011-05-26T08:26:29","slug":"rwamagana-residents-raise-rfw2-5m-to-assist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/rwamagana-residents-raise-rfw2-5m-to-assist\/","title":{"rendered":"Rwamagana residents raise Rfw2.5m to assist rainstorm victims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Local authorities in <span data-scaytid=\"6\" data-scayt_word=\"Rwamagana\">Rwamagana<\/span> district in collaboration with the local business community have raised <span data-scaytid=\"10\" data-scayt_word=\"Rwf\">Rwf<\/span> 2.6 million in support of victims of recent torrential rains that hit the area recently. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><\/p>\n<p><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span data-scaytid=\"7\" data-scayt_word=\"Rwamagana\">Rwamagana<\/span> Mayor, <span data-scaytid=\"11\" data-scayt_word=\"Nehemie\">Nehemie<\/span> <span data-scaytid=\"12\" data-scayt_word=\"Uwimana\">Uwimana<\/span>&nbsp;told <span data-scaytid=\"1\" data-scayt_word=\"IGIHE.com\">IGIHE.com<\/span> they had since established that over 200 households needed financial support to rebuild their lives.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is an important <span data-scaytid=\"2\" data-scayt_word=\"initiative...we\">initiative&#8230;we<\/span> shouldn\u2019t tire to help the storm victims. I can assure you that the money will be of great use to the needy in the four affected sectors,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Jamal <span data-scaytid=\"13\" data-scayt_word=\"Habimana\">Habimana<\/span>, the Vice Chairman <span data-scaytid=\"8\" data-scayt_word=\"Rwamagana\">Rwamagana<\/span> District Advisory Council, who chaired the fundraising Committee, restated the need for local solutions to support the storm victims.<\/p>\n<p>He applauded <span data-scaytid=\"9\" data-scayt_word=\"Rwamagana\">Rwamagana<\/span> residents for their benevolence in assisting the affected residents.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe worst affected sector, <span data-scaytid=\"14\" data-scayt_word=\"Kigabiro\">Kigabiro<\/span>, is slowly <span data-scaytid=\"3\" data-scayt_word=\"recovering...aid\">recovering&#8230;aid<\/span> in form of food, clothes, books and cash was extended to storm victims. I am happy that most of it was home made,\u201d he observed.<\/p>\n<p>One of the victims, Juliana <span data-scaytid=\"15\" data-scayt_word=\"Nyirahabimana\">Nyirahabimana<\/span>, 58, could barely contain her joy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am number 10 on the <span data-scaytid=\"4\" data-scayt_word=\"list...I\">list&#8230;I<\/span> am sure my turn is next after this fundraising. it would be great if I got my own house once <span data-scaytid=\"5\" data-scayt_word=\"again.\u201d\">again.\u201d<\/span>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Local authorities in Rwamagana district in collaboration with the local business community have raised Rwf 2.6 million in support of victims of recent torrential rains that hit the area recently. Rwamagana Mayor, Nehemie Uwimana&nbsp;told IGIHE.com they had since established that over 200 households needed financial support to rebuild their lives. \u201cThis is an important initiative&#8230;we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"byline":[294],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","byline-abraham-rumanzi"],"bylines":[{"id":294,"name":"Abraham Rumanzi","slug":"abraham-rumanzi","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":294,"name":"Abraham Rumanzi","slug":"abraham-rumanzi","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\/240","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=240"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}