{"id":37499,"date":"2018-05-16T15:30:00","date_gmt":"2018-05-16T15:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/world-vision-rwanda-donates-rwf4-million-to\/"},"modified":"2018-05-17T09:06:30","modified_gmt":"2018-05-17T09:06:30","slug":"world-vision-rwanda-donates-rwf4-million-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/world-vision-rwanda-donates-rwf4-million-to\/","title":{"rendered":"World Vision Rwanda donates Rwf4 million to Kigali Peace Marathon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Kigali International Peace Marathon 2018 was organized by MTN Rwanda, Bank of Kigali (BK), RwandAir and Skol and other sponsors.<\/p>\n<p>The cheque was received by Rwanda Athletics Federation (RAF) president, Fid\u00e8le Mubirigi, where he acknowledged the commitment of the Christian Humanitarian Non-governmental organization towards athletics development in the country and peace building.<\/p>\n<p>Country Director at World Vision Rwanda, Sean Kerrigan, said that their priority mission is peace building around the country and that they were fully determined to work hand in hand with RAF to carry on supporting the event as it is one way to spread the message of peace building.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe want to support and put emphasis in Peace Marathon because it offers the best way for different people to meet an interact and share peace building ideas.\u201d said Sean Kerrigan<\/p>\n<p>Receiving the donation, the local athletics governing body\u2019s representative, Fid\u00e8le Mubirigi, said that the preparations of the marathon were in high progress and that its success was guaranteed due to the support it was receiving from bodies like World Vision Rwanda.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are grateful for World Vision&#8217;s donation and it is not the only one as earlier this week, we received other donations from our sponsors. These donations are guaranteeing the success of this year&#8217;s Peace Marathon\u201d he said<\/p>\n<p>Over 8,000 athletes including amateurs and professionals are expected to participate in this year\u2019s marathon that is scheduled for May 20 at a tune of Rwf73 million.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-25294 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/umuyobozi_wa_world_vision_mu_rwanda_sean_kerrigan_ashyikiriza_shekiumuyobozi_w_ishyirahamwe_ry_imikino_ngororamubiri_mu_rwanda_mubirigi_fidele-555ce.jpg\" alt=\"Receiving the donation, the local athletics governing body\u2019s representative, Fid\u00e8le Mubirigi thanked World Vision Rwanda for its support\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-25295 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/nyuma_y_umuhango_wo_gutanga_impano_bafashe_ifoto_y_urwibutso-1d96a.jpg\" alt=\"World Vision Rwanda &amp; Rwanda Athletics Federation (RAF) officials taking a group Photo\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World Vision Rwanda has donated Rwf 4 million to sponsor the 14th Edition of the Kigali International Peace Marathon scheduled for May 20.<\/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-37499","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\/37499","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=37499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37499\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37499"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=37499"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=37499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}