The award was received by Rwanda\u2019s High Commissioner to South Africa, Vincent Karega, on behalf of the first lady during a dinner that took place in Johannesburg.<\/p>\n
Jeannette Kagame was recognized for the work she does through the interventions of her organization Imbuto Foundation, which includes educating and empowering women, young girls and the most vulnerable groups in Rwanda.<\/p>\n
The High Commissioner thanked the organizers and said Rwanda is reaping from her efforts of promoting women participation in national development programmes. \u201cWe have, therefore, committed ourselves to create and continue ensuring a conducive environment for women growth and development through favourable policies and laws.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is safe to say that Rwanda is where it is today mainly due to the fact that we chose to promote the inclusion of women, as we could not leave out over 50 percent of our population and expect sustainable development ,\u201d Karega said.<\/p>\n
This year\u2019s awards were co-chaired by the Deputy Chairperson of the African Union Commission, Ambassador Kwesi Quartey, with a theme: A tribute to the three first iconic recipients of the Living Legends Award \u201cMama\u201d Winnie Madikizela Mandela, Liberian politician, Ruth Perry and the \u2018Queen of Soul\u2019 Aretha Franklin. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The First Lady, Her Excellency Jeannette Kagame was awarded with \u201cAfrican Woman of Excellence Award\u201d, Saturday, honouring her commitment, drive for excellence and overall contribution to Africa\u2019s development, according to information shared on the First Lady\u2019s official Twitter account.<\/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":[69],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-38244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homehighlights","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\/38244","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=38244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38244\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38244"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=38244"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=38244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}