{"id":38787,"date":"2019-01-22T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-01-22T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/arsenal-supporters-discover-rwanda-through-visit\/"},"modified":"2019-01-22T12:32:32","modified_gmt":"2019-01-22T12:32:32","slug":"arsenal-supporters-discover-rwanda-through-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/arsenal-supporters-discover-rwanda-through-visit\/","title":{"rendered":"Arsenal supporters discover Rwanda through Visit Rwanda Fan Activation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The activity aimed at introducing Visit Rwanda to the Arsenal FC fan base in an interactive manner and strengthen the already existing relationship between Visit Rwanda and Arsenal FC.<\/p>\n<p>Rwandan Ambassador to United Kingdom Yamina Karitanyi and the team&#8217;s commercial director Peter Silverstone were both present.<\/p>\n<p>The event took place during a match between Arsenal and Chelsea. As the two adversaries clashed, \u201cVisit Rwanda\u201d representatives were at the entrance to the stadium bringing a taste of Rwanda to thousands of Arsenal FC and Chelsea FC fans, entertaining them with traditional drummers in full Rwandan regalia, while others were distributing flyers illustrating different tourist attractions in Rwanda.<\/p>\n<p>Visit Rwanda also ran a photo competition for the fans, giving them the opportunity to win signed Arsenal T-shirts as well as tickets to watch Home Games of their choice. To participate, the fans had to take a picture in front of the \u2018Visit Rwanda\u2019 stand, follow Visit Rwanda Twitter &#038; Facebook Page, then publish the photo with the #VisitRwanda hashtag. <\/p>\n<p>On 23 May 2018, RDB, through the Rwanda Convention Bureau, became Arsenal\u2019s first official sleeve partner as part of Rwanda\u2019s drive to become a leading global tourist destination.<\/p>\n<p>The three-year deal makes \u2018Visit Rwanda\u2019 Arsenal\u2019s official Tourism Partner. The \u2018Visit Rwanda\u2019 logo features on the left sleeve of all teams. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-28040 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/abafana_bifof420-7435e.jpg\" alt=\"Arsenal Supporters participating at the Visit Rwanda Stand at the Emirates Stadium, in London, England.\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-28038 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/iki_gikorwa_c74f-f7392.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-28039 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/bamwe_mu_bag4f65-efb2b.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Saturday the supporters of Arsenal were introduced to Rwanda during a Visit Rwanda Fan Activation Activity at the Emirates Stadium, in London, England.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[213],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-38787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-berenice-rutaganda"],"bylines":[{"id":213,"name":"B\u00e9r\u00e9nice Rutaganda","slug":"berenice-rutaganda","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":37}],"contributors":[{"id":213,"name":"B\u00e9r\u00e9nice Rutaganda","slug":"berenice-rutaganda","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":37}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38787","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\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38787\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38787"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=38787"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=38787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}