{"id":39701,"date":"2019-07-19T15:34:35","date_gmt":"2019-07-19T15:34:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/jica-president-lauds-k-lab-for-supporting-youth\/"},"modified":"2019-07-23T11:33:07","modified_gmt":"2019-07-23T11:33:07","slug":"jica-president-lauds-k-lab-for-supporting-youth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/jica-president-lauds-k-lab-for-supporting-youth\/","title":{"rendered":"JICA President lauds K-Lab for supporting youth ambitions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kitaoka is visiting Rwanda from 17th to 21st July 2019. <\/p>\n<p>After learning from the history of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi yesterday, he has visited K-Lab and Fab-Lab projects supported by JICA in Rwanda.<\/p>\n<p>Kitaoka and accompanying delegation also held discussions with Rwandans who completed a Master\u2019s degree in Japan through African Business Education (ABE).<\/p>\n<p>K-Lab and Fab-Lab are firms helping the youth to develop digital solutions, carry out research, creating projects and developing software promising to boost their welfare and country\u2019s socio-economic transformation in general.<\/p>\n<p>Ildephonse Musafiri, the founder of HINGANEZA Ltd which has software with agriculture solutions has told IGIHE that knowledge he acquired training at K-Lab for four years was of great relevance to his project. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is a comfortable space where you meet talented youth from different walks assisting each other to solve particular challenges. K-Lab helps the youth with promising projects and link them to institutions in need of their expertise,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n<p>The President of JICA, Kitaoka appreciated the way technology projects supported by Japan help youth through different programs. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cTalking about K-Lab, it is a great project giving opportunities to the youth to train in basic digital skills enabling them to grow experts and magnates of the future,\u201d he said.<br \/>\nKitaoka said that Japan and Rwanda are both small countries but with the privileges of having visionary leadership. <\/p>\n<p>He came to Rwanda following the visit of President Paul Kagame to Japan in January 2019 and held discussions on different areas supporting Rwanda\u2019s development programs.  <\/p>\n<p>He is also expected to visit various projects support by JICA in Rwanda including Rusumo International Bridge and One-Stop Border Post (OSBP) as well as holding talks with President Kagame.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-30843 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/bari_kuganira_na_bamwe_mu_banyarwanda_bize_icyiciro_cya_gatatu_cya_kaminuza_binyuze_muri_gahunda_icyo_gihugu_kigenera_urubyiruko_rwo_muri_afurika_izwi_nka_abe_-913b0.jpg\" alt=\"The President of JICA, Shinichi Kitaoka has visited K-Lab and Fab-Lab projects supported by JICA in Rwanda.\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-30844 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/q-9-ba98c.jpg\" alt=\"Kitaoka appreciated the way technology projects supported by Japan help youth through different programs. \" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-30845 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/ubayobozi_ba_jica_bafashe_ifoto_y_urwibutso_na_bamwe_mu_banyeshyri_bize_icyiciro_cya_gatatu_cya_kaminuza_mu_buyapani-78f46.jpg\" alt=\"Kitaoka said that Japan and Rwanda are both small countries but with privileges of having visionary leadership.\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-30846 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/7-316a2959-98ebf.jpg\" alt=\"He is also expected to visit various projects support by JICA in Rwanda \" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The President of Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), Shinichi Kitaoka has visited projects of institutions supporting the youth to acquire technology skills to create innovations and said it is a path to young generations\u2019 expertize and wealth creation.<\/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-39701","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\/39701","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=39701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39701\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39701"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=39701"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=39701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}