{"id":38143,"date":"2018-09-10T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-09-10T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/akon-rdb-initiatives-offer-facilities-to-kayonza\/"},"modified":"2018-09-10T15:31:09","modified_gmt":"2018-09-10T15:31:09","slug":"akon-rdb-initiatives-offer-facilities-to-kayonza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/akon-rdb-initiatives-offer-facilities-to-kayonza\/","title":{"rendered":"Akon, RDB initiatives offer facilities to Kayonza residents"},"content":{"rendered":"

The project being implemented by Solektra Int. is a joint venture of the Senegalese-American singer Alioune Badara Thiam aka Akon, his fellow Senegalese-American Thione Niang and Malian entrepreneur Samba Bathily.<\/p>\n

Unveiling Saturday the street lighting units, a village water pump and three ambulances Ndego, Solektra Int CEO Samba Bathily said the $250,000 worth facilities constitute the first phase of the project.<\/p>\n

The facilities were developed in collaboration with Rwanda Development Board in its revenue sharing programme with the communities neighbouring with the national game parks.<\/p>\n

The beneficiaries are neighbours with Akagera National Park.<\/p>\n

Bathily said the second phase will offer irrigation systems, solar systems for primary and secondary schools, and a smart village centre in Ndego and Rwinkwavu sectors.
\nIt is expected to be completed in the next three months at a tune of $500,000.<\/p>\n

Bathily also participated in gorilla naming Friday in Musanze District where 23 gorilla infants received names. The Malian philanthropist named one \u2018Ineza\u2019 meaning charity.<\/p>\n

Germaine Kamayirese, Minister of State in charge of Energy and Water at the Ministry of Infrastructure, urged Ndego residents to preserve the facilities and use them to improve their living.<\/p>\n

Innocent Shingiro, a resident of Ndego, said the ambulances, water and power will help them live better. <\/p>\n

During his visit to Rwanda in July 2015, Akon had promised to fast-track his project in six months but nothing was done until May 2017 as Kamayirese\u2019s advisor Alexis Karani told IGIHE.<\/p>\n

With the budget of $1 billion, Akon Lighting Africa seeks to provide solar energy to 600 million rural residents in 30 African countries.<\/p>\n

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Formerly deemed stalled Akon Lighting Africa project has started delivering the solar powered systems in Ndengo Sector, Kayonza District. <\/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-38143","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\/38143","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=38143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38143"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=38143"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=38143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}