{"id":36461,"date":"2017-12-08T14:25:24","date_gmt":"2017-12-08T14:25:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/premier-ngirente-calls-for-concerted-efforts-in\/"},"modified":"2017-12-08T14:24:16","modified_gmt":"2017-12-08T14:24:16","slug":"premier-ngirente-calls-for-concerted-efforts-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/premier-ngirente-calls-for-concerted-efforts-in\/","title":{"rendered":"Premier Ngirente calls for concerted efforts in tackling children problems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ngirente was speaking Thursday during the opening of the 12th National Children\u2019s Summit in Kigali.<\/p>\n<p>The summit is being held under the theme \u2018Positive Parenting: Foundation of the Rwanda we want\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Premier said that whoever wishes for societal development should value children . He called on parents, teachers, leaders and Rwandan community to remember their duties on positive parenting urging them to collaborate in seeking solutions for remaining problems that children still face.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cAll Rwandans, we are required to collaborate so that we find good and sustainable solutions for problems that hamper our children\u2019s progress,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n<p> \u201cSome of those problems include unwanted pregnancies, school dropouts, child labor and drugs. We should also remember children that do not seat for national examinations over different challenges and find ways of bringing them on board,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p> In 2016, 17500 girls between the ages of 16-19 carried unwanted pregnancies, dropping out from schools.<\/p>\n<p>Ngirente reminded children that they are future parents of the country who have responsibilities to advance their parents\u2019 achievements as well as implementing their own ideas.<\/p>\n<p>The summit brings together 488 representatives of children from all districts and sectors of the country, representatives of children with disabilities, refugee children representatives and partner institutions working on child rights protection. <\/p>\n<p>The Minister for Family and Gender Promotion, Esperance Nyirasafari urged children to continue promoting their rights calling them to participate in good parenting.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cAs children, you should advise one another on avoiding bad behaviors that could result in negative effects,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>AngeKarasira, the representative of children forum said that they are ready to provide their contribution in constructing the nation they want.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-23116 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/chidrenn.jpg\" alt=\"Children participated in  the event\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-23115 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/childre.jpg\" alt=\"Prime Minister, Dr. Eduard Ngirente (C), Gender and Family Promotion Minister (L) and AngeKarasira, the representative of children forum \" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-23117 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/children.jpg\" alt=\"Officials and children pose for a group photo\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister, Dr. Eduard Ngirente has called upon people from all levels to collaborate in seeking solutions for problems that children face and continue to undermine rights and welfare of children.<\/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-36461","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\/36461","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=36461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36461\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36461"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=36461"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=36461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}