{"id":37091,"date":"2018-03-09T12:42:00","date_gmt":"2018-03-09T12:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/gender-minister-nyirasafari-tips-women-on\/"},"modified":"2018-03-09T12:56:17","modified_gmt":"2018-03-09T12:56:17","slug":"gender-minister-nyirasafari-tips-women-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/gender-minister-nyirasafari-tips-women-on\/","title":{"rendered":"Gender Minister Nyirasafari tips women on development"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nyirasafari was speaking yesterday in Shyogwe Sector of Muhanga District during the national event to celebrate International Women\u2019s Day.<\/p>\n<p>In Rwanda, the day was celebrated under the theme, \u2018Let\u2019s pursue efforts to build the Rwanda we want\u2019. Internationally, the day was celebrated under the theme \u2018Time is now: Rural and Urban Activists Transforming Women\u2019s Lives\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Nyirasafari said that when women\u2019s efforts are properly used; they can develop countries.<\/p>\n<p>However, Nyirasafari said that there are funding for women which are wasted because of discouragements in the society.<\/p>\n<p>She said that some women fear to join men dominated jobs; though they are capable to perform them properly.<\/p>\n<p>Gender Minister added that women who have acquired practical skills are now capable of taking care of the well-being of their families.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cYou have all it takes to develop yourselves; the government is there to support you. We have Business Development Fund (BDF) to support your projects, you should not give room for discouragements,\u201d she urged women.<\/p>\n<p>Monique Uwizeramariya, a woman who learnt electrical engineering and now a teacher at Kabgayi Technical Vocational and Education Training said that the profession enables her to compete for tenders of electrical installation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday I am capable of supporting my family\u2019s living as well as for the future,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-24333 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/minisitiri_w_uburinganire_n_iterambere_ry_umuryango_nyirasagari_esperance_yongeye_gusaba_abanyarwandakazi_kwima_amatwi_ababaca_intege-87814.jpg\" alt=\"Gender Minister Nyirasafari tips women on development\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Minister of Gender and Family Promotion (Migeprof), Esperance Nyirasafari has called upon  women to defy the odds and acquire practical skills for them to be able to fit into jobs which would contribute to their and families\u2019 development.<\/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-37091","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\/37091","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=37091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37091\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37091"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=37091"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=37091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}