{"id":38050,"date":"2018-08-22T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-08-22T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/rwandans-in-texas-celebrate-umuganura\/"},"modified":"2018-08-22T09:49:13","modified_gmt":"2018-08-22T09:49:13","slug":"rwandans-in-texas-celebrate-umuganura","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/rwandans-in-texas-celebrate-umuganura\/","title":{"rendered":"Rwandans in Texas celebrate Umuganura"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The event that took place last Sunday was attended by over 60 members of Dallas Fort Worth Rwandan Community.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing participants, the first counselor at the Embassy of Rwanda in U.S, Frank Kayijuka told how in ancient Rwanda, Umuganura was one of the most important ceremonies celebrated by Rwandans at the beginning of every harvest season, carried out at the king\u2019s palace, and at the family and community level as an occasion to celebrate the country\u2019s abundant harvest.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cToday, our tradition of celebrating Umuganura is still meaningful for Rwandans but carries another meaning. It is an opportunity to take stock of the achievements of our nation, while looking at ways of addressing future challenges, as we all thrive towards national development,\u201d said Kayijuka, as he called the diaspora to join in on the journey that the country has embarked on, and practice self-reliance while fostering Rwanda\u2019s development. <\/p>\n<p>Kayijuka also thanked the efforts made by Rwandans living abroad, who contributed to this year\u2019s various initiatives such as providing Mutuelle de Sant\u00e9 to less privileged Rwandans back home.<\/p>\n<p>Rwandan traditional meals were shared as community members mingled and danced. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-26829 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/64b2804c-ca03-448f-9abc-4bb173a063e8-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-26827 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/3c102911-fbaa-46ad-95b9-23289ce4926e-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-26828 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/5fffd0e1-57d8-4d49-8771-bfdc99402020-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-26830 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/436cbba1-75d3-4d0f-bbed-dcd1f3dd7128-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Rwandan Community in Dallas Fort Worth, texas, USA, celebrated \u2018Umuganura\u2019 \u2014Rwandan Thanksgiving Ceremony, where they were called upon to practice self-reliance and to foster Rwanda\u2019s 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-38050","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\/38050","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=38050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38050\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38050"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=38050"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=38050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}