{"id":37636,"date":"2018-06-04T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-06-04T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/mtn-rwanda-kicks-off-21-days-of-y-ello-care-37636\/"},"modified":"2018-06-04T15:20:44","modified_gmt":"2018-06-04T15:20:44","slug":"mtn-rwanda-kicks-off-21-days-of-y-ello-care-37636","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/mtn-rwanda-kicks-off-21-days-of-y-ello-care-37636\/","title":{"rendered":"MTN Rwanda kicks off &#8217;21 Days of Y&#8217;ello Care&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 12th Edition of the \u201921 Days of Y\u2019ello Care\u2019 campaign in Rwanda, began on Friday, 01st May 2018.<\/p>\n<p>The campaign which is carried out every year is aimed at encouraging the MTN staff members to care about the people in their communities, as they volunteer in various goodwill projects around the country.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to the press, Yvonne Mubiligi, the corporate social responsibility and MTN foundation manager said that the &#8220;21 Days of Y\u2019ello Care&#8221; initiative is a way and an opportunity of giving back to the community.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The \u201921 Days Y\u2019ello Care\u2019 initiative has been going forward for 11 years now, in all the 22 countries where MTN works in. We use more than Rwf50 million yearly to give back to our communities, where 80% contributes to the Education sector. Through these initiatives, we seek to reduce the poverty gap and use the opportunity to give hope to impoverished communities.&#8221; She said.<\/p>\n<p>She stressed that this year\u2019s edition of the &#8220;21 Days of Y\u2019ello Care&#8221; Initiative will focus on empowering Rwanda\u2019s education sector.<\/p>\n<p>Mubirigi hinted that MTN Rwanda\u2019s management was discussing with Rwanda Education Board (REB) on distributing laptops in schools, although she didn\u2019t specify on the number of laptops that would be distributed.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-25644 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/umuyobozi_wa_mtn_rwanda_bart_hofker-3-85190.jpg\" alt=\"MTN Rwanda CEO, Bart Hofker\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-25647 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/yvonne_mubirigi_ushinzwe_ibikorwa_by_ubucuruzi_muri_mtn_rwanda-fecc8.jpg\" alt=\"Yvonne Mubiligi, the corporate social responsibility and MTN foundation manager\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-25645 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/bamwe_mu_bayobozi_ba_mtn_rwanda-2-38d61.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-25646 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/abakozi_benshi_ba_mtn_rwandabari_bambaye_imyambaro_ikozwe_mu_bitenge-4ab2a.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-25648 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/bamwe_mu_bakozi_ba_mtn_rwanda-2-cc29f.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MTN Rwanda has joined other subsidiaries of the South African-headquartered firm in a prominent annual volunteerism initiative dubbed &#8220;21 Days of Y\u2019ello Care&#8221;.<\/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-37636","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\/37636","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=37636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37636\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37636"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=37636"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=37636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}