{"id":37473,"date":"2018-05-14T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-05-14T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/over-1900-former-street-children-drug-addicts\/"},"modified":"2018-05-14T11:26:43","modified_gmt":"2018-05-14T11:26:43","slug":"over-1900-former-street-children-drug-addicts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/over-1900-former-street-children-drug-addicts\/","title":{"rendered":"Over 1900 former street children, drug addicts graduate with vocational skills at Iwawa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At Iwawa, youth acquired different skills including masonry, carpentry, tailoring, agriculture and veterinary among others.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the graduation ceremony on Saturday, the Director General of National Rehabilitation Service (NRS), Aim\u00e9 Bosenibamwe urged the youth to use acquired skills in developing themselves through working in cooperatives.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is a programme to receive those who graduate from here in districts; different officials are working to welcome you and will direct you in projects to establish, as a way to reintegrate you in the society, NRS in partnership with local government authorities will facilitate you in establishing associations and cooperatives through which you will perform income generating activities,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n<p>After a year of being trained, the youth say that they acquired skills that will help them in future.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI learnt masonry skills from here which will help me towards development. I abandoned drugs and will encourage former peers to abandon such vices,\u201d said Jean Paul Gacamumakuba from Kicukiro District.<\/p>\n<p>Cesalie Nyirantagorana, a parent whose child was rehabilitated, hailed the programme saying it was not possible for parents themselves to change the behaviors children had developed.<\/p>\n<p>The cohort of 1,974 graduate is the 15th edition at Iwawa. Since the centre was established in 2010, over 15,000 have graduated from there. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-25245 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/01-abarangije-01949.jpg\" alt=\"A total of 1974 youth comprising of former street children and drug addicts have graduated with various practical skills from Iwawa Rehabilitation Centre in Rutsiro District and awarded certificates of completion.\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-25244 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/13-bosenibamwe_aime_2_-73657.jpg\" alt=\"Director General of National Rehabilitation Service (NRS), Aim\u00e9 Bosenibamwe urged the youth to use acquired skills in developing themselves through working in cooperatives.\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-25243 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/19-bosenibamwe_aime_8_-7a72e.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-25246 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/30-uhagarariye_ababyeyi_1_-23db2.jpg\" alt=\"Cesalie Nyirantagorana, a parent whose child was rehabilitated, hailed the programme saying it was not possible for parents themselves to change the behaviors children had developed.\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A total of 1974 youth comprising of former street children and drug addicts have graduated with various practical skills from Iwawa Rehabilitation Centre in Rutsiro District and awarded certificates of completion.<\/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-37473","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\/37473","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=37473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37473\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37473"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=37473"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=37473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}