{"id":36580,"date":"2017-12-22T16:52:46","date_gmt":"2017-12-22T16:52:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/rwanda-diaspora-urged-to-invest-locally\/"},"modified":"2017-12-22T16:52:43","modified_gmt":"2017-12-22T16:52:43","slug":"rwanda-diaspora-urged-to-invest-locally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/rwanda-diaspora-urged-to-invest-locally\/","title":{"rendered":"Rwanda Diaspora urged to invest locally"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking in Kigali yesterday, Chief Executive Officer of Rwanda National Investment Trust (RNIT) Ltd, Andr\u00e9 Gashugi advised Diaspora members to use the fund for securing their own and families\u2019 future.<\/p>\n<p>A number of Diaspora members are in the country for festive holidays and participated at the National Dialogue Council, locally known as Umushyikirano, early this week.<\/p>\n<p>He told them to save in the fund to support the government\u2019s saving initiative and promotion of investment in the country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA person always thinks about where they have invested their fortune. If you want to keep thinking about Rwanda, you should invest in here. The fund should link Rwandans in Diaspora and their families in the country. Rwandans should save for their children. The more develops, the more profit investors get from their investments,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Rwandan Diaspora member in Norway, Etienne Murenzi, hailed the fund saying that it is paramount to spur the Rwanda\u2019s development.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis fund is good for raising saving culture among Rwandans. It is a good programme that should be supported by every individual who is proud of their country\u2019s development. We, as Rwandans living in Diaspora, have many unnecessary expenses that we can stop and save in this fund,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>President of Rwandan Diaspora, Daniel Murenzi said that the fund is crucial for the development of the country and committed to promote the initiative among Rwandans living abroad.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m very pleased with how people expressed interest in saving in the fund,\u201d he said.<br \/>\nIterambere Fund currently, has 2,000 shareholders with Rwf1.45 billion of savings.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-23428 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/eifw.jpg\" alt=\"Chief Executive Officer of Rwanda National Investment Trust (RNIT) Ltd, Andr\u00e9 Gashugi advised Diaspora members to use the fund for securing their own and families\u2019 future\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-23429 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/grevds.jpg\" alt=\"President of Rwandan Diaspora, Daniel Murenzi\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-23425 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/fcwe.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-23424 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/c3wes.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-23427 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/jufew.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-23426 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/fhewd.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rwandan Diaspora has been urged to invest in Iterambere Fund as a way to contribute to the country\u2019s investment development as they also secure their future.<\/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-36580","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\/36580","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=36580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36580\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36580"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=36580"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=36580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}