{"id":33679,"date":"2017-04-04T18:17:25","date_gmt":"2017-04-04T18:17:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/bboxx-expands-to-rwamagana-district\/"},"modified":"2017-04-04T18:22:24","modified_gmt":"2017-04-04T18:22:24","slug":"bboxx-expands-to-rwamagana-district","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/bboxx-expands-to-rwamagana-district\/","title":{"rendered":"BBOXX expands to Rwamagana district"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{BBOXX, a British company offering solar power materials has expanded activities in Rwamagana district with a target of availing off-grid solutions to more rural areas. } <\/p>\n<p>The opening of a new shop of solar energy materials in Rwamagana yesterday becomes the 26th adding  to the existing outlets in 25 districts countrywide. <\/p>\n<p>In an interview with IGIHE, the newly appointed CEO of BBOXX in Rwanda,Monica Keza Katumwine has expressed  delight to have lit many households and hope to cover all remote areas not  accessible by the on-grid. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe plan to connect  58,000 households by the end of this year. Our solar equipments  have been availed to citizens and affordable to the majority of Rwandans with the durability of about  10 years,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n<p>She explained that BBOXX is upgrading its technology to enable clients use materials requiring more electricity  including fridges.  <\/p>\n<p>Katumwine noted  that BBOXX has been committed to transforming citizens\u2019 livelihoods. Recently BBOXX paid  Mituelle de sant\u00e9 for 40 households and bought livestock for some families during the celebration of achievements in Rwanda. <\/p>\n<p>Katumwine assures to serve with utmost commitment given her 10 year experience in medium businesses to improve delivery of BBOXX activities among Rwandans.   <\/p>\n<p>\u2018I am committed to providing my contribution in transforming livelihoods of fellow Rwandans. As a female Rwandan operating inside the country, I have witnessed consequences of lacking electricity. I saw children revising  using oil powered lanterns,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n<p>BBOXX is one of the companies belonging to private investors committed to facilitating the government of Rwanda\u2019s target of  connecting electricity to  70% household by 2018 with 48% expected to use electricity on-grid while 22% will use off-grid solutions. 30% of Rwandans are connected today. <\/p>\n<p>BBOXX has offered solar energy materials to more than 25,000 Rwandans in rural areas since it opened shop  in 2014. It had one shop in Musanze district at the beginning.  <\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-19087 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/batiri_ijyana_n_umurasire_utangwa_na_bboxx-2-e1f8d.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-19089 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/umuyobozi_wa_bboxx_rwanda_monica_keza_katumwine_ashyikiriza_umuturage_ubwisungane_mu_kwivuza_-fa20f.jpg\" alt=\"The newly appointed CEO of BBOXX in Rwanda,Monica Keza Katumwine handing Mituelle de sant\u00e9 to Kayonza resident.\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-19090 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/bamwe_mu_bakozi_ba_bboxx_ishami_rya_rwamagana-555c7.jpg\" alt=\"Employees of BBOXX Rwamagana branch. \" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-19088 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/iduka_rya_rwamagana_ryafunguwe_n_umuyobozi_w_aka_karere_mbonyumuvunyi_rajab-3c48f.jpg\" alt=\"Officials during the launch of BBOXX Rwamagana shop\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-19091 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/umurasire_w_izuba_utangwa_na_bboxx-2-c2737.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{BBOXX, a British company offering solar power materials has expanded activities in Rwamagana district with a target of availing off-grid solutions to more rural areas. } The opening of a new shop of solar energy materials in Rwamagana yesterday becomes the 26th adding to the existing outlets in 25 districts countrywide. In an interview with [&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":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-33679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","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\/33679","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=33679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33679\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33679"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=33679"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=33679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}