{"id":31076,"date":"2016-12-14T06:56:11","date_gmt":"2016-12-14T06:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/minister-nyirasafari-urges-female-learners-on\/"},"modified":"2016-12-16T00:05:48","modified_gmt":"2016-12-16T00:05:48","slug":"minister-nyirasafari-urges-female-learners-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/minister-nyirasafari-urges-female-learners-on\/","title":{"rendered":"Minister Nyirasafari urges female learners on vocational skills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{The Minister of Gender and Family Promotion (MIGEPROF), Esperance Nyirasafari has advised  girls to make a good use of  government program of taking up vocational training for skills that will enable them create own jobs. }<\/p>\n<p>She gave  the advice yesterday during the conclusion of a  two-week campaign dubbed \u2018TVET Girl mu myuga turashoboye\u2019 aimed at encouraging girls to attend vocational trainings and  calling upon parents to moving away from the belief that a girl child shouldn\u2019t venture into vocational training.  <\/p>\n<p>The government targets to increase by three-fold the number of girls and women with vocational skills by 2020. <\/p>\n<p>Statistics indicate that only 17% of women and girls study Science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) while those attending vocational skills trainings are 42%. <\/p>\n<p>During the campaign, girls who have already earned vocational skills and practicing, toured the country mobilizing their peers to follow suit and encouraging parents to encourage  girls to attend TVET to foster job creation and innovations. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cYour government has all possible programs meant to support you. Don\u2019t neglect any profession .It will keep you away from falling under temptations and enable you make earnings other than waiting for handouts,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>The State Minister in Charge of TVET at the Ministry of Education, Olivier Rwamukwaya said that there is still a gap of girls in TVET schools and at the labour market.<\/p>\n<p>He urged girls to consider vocational skills as a path towards job creation.<\/p>\n<p>One of the TVET female students  from IPRC West, Marie Josee Umuhoza a said  the mobilization will help attract more female learners into the profession. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-17035 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/migeprof-2.jpg\" alt=\"Excellent girls in vocational training were awarded \" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-17036 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/mos-2.jpg\" alt=\"The State Minister in Charge of TVET at the Ministry of Education, Olivier Rwamukwaya handing the award to one of excellent girls in vocational trainings.\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-17037 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/girls-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{The Minister of Gender and Family Promotion (MIGEPROF), Esperance Nyirasafari has advised girls to make a good use of government program of taking up vocational training for skills that will enable them create own jobs. } She gave the advice yesterday during the conclusion of a two-week campaign dubbed \u2018TVET Girl mu myuga turashoboye\u2019 aimed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-31076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","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":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31076","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=31076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31076\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31076"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=31076"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=31076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}