{"id":37973,"date":"2018-08-09T10:12:17","date_gmt":"2018-08-09T10:12:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/first-lady-donates-12-cows-to-gakenke-needy\/"},"modified":"2018-08-11T09:45:35","modified_gmt":"2018-08-11T09:45:35","slug":"first-lady-donates-12-cows-to-gakenke-needy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/first-lady-donates-12-cows-to-gakenke-needy\/","title":{"rendered":"First Lady donates 12 cows to Gakenke needy families"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The cattle handover ceremony took place yesterday. The cows were handed over to beneficiaries by Northern Province Governor, Jean Marie Vianney Gatabazi.<\/p>\n<p>Mrs. Kagame donated the cows in June while she was participating in the celebration of International Day of African Child, an event that took place in Nemba Sector of Gakenke District.<\/p>\n<p>The donation supports Government of Rwanda\u2019s efforts to fight against malnutrition and stunting among children. <\/p>\n<p>Speaking to IGIHE, Governor Gatabazi said that the cows will help people graduate from poverty as well as fighting malnutrition in their families.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThose are hybrid cows which will produce enough milk, people will earn money and neighbors will benefit from them,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking in Gakenke in June, First Lady called all districts to include fight against malnutrition and stunting programmes in district planning.<\/p>\n<p>Beneficiaries welcomed the donation saying that they will enable them raise living standards and spur economic development.<\/p>\n<p>Gakenke District comes second in high rate of stunting nationally with 46 per cent. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-26586 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/dkebigzx4aeg0kr-3147b.jpg\" alt=\"Governor Gatabazi hands cows to beneficiaries\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-26587 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/dkebpejxsaakhhc-1de57.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-26588 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/dkebjnaxcaan_em-6e55e.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First Lady of Rwanda Jeannette Kagame has donated 12 cows to nine poor families and three Early Childhood Development Centres in Gakenke District of Northern Province. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[72],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-37973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-featured-news-home","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\/37973","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\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37973\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37973"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=37973"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=37973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}