{"id":39505,"date":"2019-06-14T08:29:33","date_gmt":"2019-06-14T08:29:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/tom-close-adopts-three-week-baby-abandoned-on\/"},"modified":"2019-06-14T08:29:23","modified_gmt":"2019-06-14T08:29:23","slug":"tom-close-adopts-three-week-baby-abandoned-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/tom-close-adopts-three-week-baby-abandoned-on\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Close adopts three-week baby abandoned on street"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>His kind act went viral on social media today as they appeared in a photo featuring Tom Close and his wife Tricia Niyonshuti holding the baby. <\/p>\n<p>IGIHE has learnt that Tom Close had a wish to adopt a baby. According to relatives of the family, Tom Close had previously gone to Nyagatare to get another child rescued from the road but the mother was identified upon arrival. <\/p>\n<p>Few days later, Tom Close learnt about another baby abandoned on streets and rushed to Nyagatare to pick him. <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A renowned <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Rwanda?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Rwanda<\/a>-n artist <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tomcloserwanda?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@tomcloserwanda<\/a> has adopted a three-weeks old baby boy who was abandoned on the streets of Nyagatare recently. What a noble gesture <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/RWoT?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#RWoT<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/XCIC0ElbRl\">pic.twitter.com\/XCIC0ElbRl<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Kim Kamasa (@KimKamasa) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KimKamasa\/status\/1139145410843435008?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 13, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The gesture has been welcomed by different social media users.<br \/>\n\u201cA renowned Rwandan artist Tom Close has adopted a three-week old baby boy who was abandoned on the streets of Nyagatare recently. What a noble gesture!\u201d Kim Kamasa said in a tweet. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cMay God bless you. I don\u2019t have words to express emotions. It is an outstanding deed,\u201d said Daniel Gahamanyi. <\/p>\n<p>Sylidio Sebuharara said: &#8220;Humanity among humans! Teach him to be keen on widening thoughts and forgiving. May God bless your works!\u201d  <\/p>\n<p>IGIHE called Tom Close for comments but could not reply while her wife\u2019s phone was offline by press time.   <\/p>\n<p>Tom Close married Niyonshuti Ange Tricia on 30th November 2013 at Saint Etienne Church located in Nyarugenge.<\/p>\n<p>They have begotten two children including the first born daughter Ella Ineza born on 16th August 2014 and a boy Elan born on 25th June 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Tom Close was recently in April 2019 appointed Director of Regional Center for Blood Transfusion (RCBT-Kigali) by the cabinet.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to the appointment, he previously worked as the Head of Blood Donor Recruitment at Rwanda Biomedical Center.<\/p>\n<p>He had been elected in February 2017 to chair the Africa Society for Blood Transfusion (AfSBT) based in 13 African countries.<\/p>\n<p>Tom Close also worked as a pediatrician at Police Hospital before appointment in RBC.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-29727 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/d88otczxsaei9eb-eb395.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rwandan artist Dr Muyombo Thomas alias Tom Close and her wife have demonstrated a kind gesture adopting a three-week old baby boy who was abandoned on the street of Nyagatare district recently.<\/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-39505","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\/39505","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=39505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39505\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39505"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=39505"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=39505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}