{"id":38579,"date":"2018-12-03T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-12-03T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/kigali-marriott-hotel-donates-to-sos-children-s\/"},"modified":"2018-12-04T12:12:40","modified_gmt":"2018-12-04T12:12:40","slug":"kigali-marriott-hotel-donates-to-sos-children-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/kigali-marriott-hotel-donates-to-sos-children-s\/","title":{"rendered":"Kigali Marriott Hotel donates to SOS Children\u2019s Village, promises more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This followed Kigali Marriott Hotel\u2019s initiative to raise Rwf10 million to support activities at SOS Rwanda to help vulnerable children. <\/p>\n<p>Claudine Uwamahoro, an associate at Kigali Marriott Hotel Human Resource Department, said the activity was done in a bid to help the community and support in improving children\u2019s lives.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe thought of an activity we could do to improve the children\u2019s lives and support their education. We raised the funds given today through sales of T-shirts we made and sold to our staff and visitors and all the other people we met,\u201d Uwamahoro said.<\/p>\n<p>Uwamahoro added that they will raise more funds through T-shirt sales in support of the SOS Children Village cause. <\/p>\n<p>The SOS Children\u2019s Village, Kigali Director, Mr. Louis Ntabana commended Kigali Marriott Hotel for joining Rwandans and other international benefactors for contributing to the education of orphans and other vulnerable children.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor 10 years now, we have been calling upon all people to support us to decently raise Rwandan children. We appreciate Kigali Marriott Hotel gesture and invite all other good-hearted people to follow suit,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Shakira Iradukunda, 11, is one of the 30 children who was given gifts by Kigali Marriott Hotel team. She says she was happy to see there are people who think about them and strive for their joy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am happy they will keep supporting us. I ask them to keep up these good activities and we will never forget them,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n<p>SOS Rwanda started operations in Rwanda in 1979 and it now has branches in Kacyiru, Kigali, in Gicumbi District, Nyamagabe and Kayonza Districts, supporting 635 vulnerable children.<\/p>\n<p>SOS Children\u2019s Village, Kigali located in Kacyiru, Gasabo District, is home to 77 children. SOS also supports 144 children in secondary and tertiary studies, 73 were integrated in ordinary and 1,438 children are supported from their biological families. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-27671 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/abana_barereb948-29e77.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-27672 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/abakozi_ba_ka34c-12d19.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-27673 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/abakozi_ba_k883d-3d320.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-27674 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/bagize_umwan94d6-866b6.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-27675 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/basuye_inzu_4251-3959e.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-27676 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/byari_ibyished4f-636bf.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-27677 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/bamwe_mu_bana52d-a0dc4.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-27678 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/habaye_umwan5f91-ba220.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kigali Marriott Hotel staff have given support to children under the care of SOS Children Village Kigali over Rwf1 million and gifted Kids to wish them a Merry Christmas as they visited the Village in Kacyiru on Wednesday 28th November where they shared good moments with them. <\/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-38579","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\/38579","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=38579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38579\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38579"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=38579"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=38579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}