{"id":34658,"date":"2017-05-19T10:46:18","date_gmt":"2017-05-19T10:46:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/rutsiro-mtn-donates-24-laptops-to-gs-kavumu\/"},"modified":"2017-05-19T17:08:26","modified_gmt":"2017-05-19T17:08:26","slug":"rutsiro-mtn-donates-24-laptops-to-gs-kavumu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/rutsiro-mtn-donates-24-laptops-to-gs-kavumu\/","title":{"rendered":"Rutsiro: MTN donates 24 laptops to GS Kavumu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{MTN Rwanda through MTN Foundation has donated 24 laptops to Groupe Scolaire Kavumu in Rutsiro district.}<\/p>\n<p>The laptops with three months free internet were handed to the school\u2019s management yesterday. <\/p>\n<p>Zulfat Mukarubega, the Chairperson of MTN Foundation said they will keep giving back to communities especially where they see there is need. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cLaptop donations are part of our continuing program which has so far provided laptops worth Rwf 720 million,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n<p>The headmistress of Groupe Scolaire Kavumu, Nyirabasinga Anastasie appreciated the support saying it will boost quality education.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe express gratitude from our hearts for the support to our school. We had only one computer,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n<p>GS Kavumu students expressed delight saying the laptops will enhance their studies.<br \/>\nThe donated laptops will be used to build our knowledge. We had few machines that it was  not easy to share them,\u201d said Mutuyimana Vincent, a student. <\/p>\n<p>The mayor of Rutsiro district, Ayinkamiye Emerance lauded MTN Rwanda and requested it to keep the support as only three of 103 schools in the district have computers.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-20140 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/mudasobwa_bahawe-2-55b61.jpg\" alt=\"Zulfat Mukarubega, the Chairperson of MTN Foundation handing donations to Groupe Scolaire Kavumu on Wednesday. \" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-20152 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/ifoto_ya_rusange-8-cbf84.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-20155 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/umuyobozi_wa_gs_kavumu_nyirabasinga_anastasie-5b72f.jpg\" alt=\"The headmistress of Groupe Scolaire Kavumu\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-20154 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/umuyobozi_waeinama_yaeubuyobozi_muri_mtn_foundation_zulfat_mukarubega_-e30c5.jpg\" alt=\"Zulfat Mukarubega, the Chairperson of MTN Foundation\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-20153 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/abanyeshuri_ba_gs_kavumu-97c60.jpg\" alt=\"Students at Groupe Scolaire Kavumu \" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{MTN Rwanda through MTN Foundation has donated 24 laptops to Groupe Scolaire Kavumu in Rutsiro district.} The laptops with three months free internet were handed to the school\u2019s management yesterday. Zulfat Mukarubega, the Chairperson of MTN Foundation said they will keep giving back to communities especially where they see there is need. \u201cLaptop donations are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"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-34658","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\/34658","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34658\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34658"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=34658"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=34658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}