{"id":39896,"date":"2019-08-24T12:12:48","date_gmt":"2019-08-24T12:12:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/rdb-donates-729-cows-to-vulnerable-families\/"},"modified":"2019-08-29T18:52:19","modified_gmt":"2019-08-29T18:52:19","slug":"rdb-donates-729-cows-to-vulnerable-families","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/rdb-donates-729-cows-to-vulnerable-families\/","title":{"rendered":"RDB donates 729 cows to vulnerable families living around Volcanoes National Park"},"content":{"rendered":"

The handover, which took place in Nyabihu District, Western Province, is one of 36 projects that the Government spent Rwf 1.5 billion on during the last fiscal year (2018-2019).<\/p>\n

This is up from Rwf 741 million spent in 2017-2018. Overall park revenues reached over US$ 21.1 million (Rwf 19 billion) in 2018.<\/p>\n

These projects have availed clean drinking water, milk, health centers, classrooms and housing to members of the communities living around the three national parks; Akagera National Park, Nyungwe National Park, and Volcanoes National Park.<\/p>\n

The program has existed since 2005 and over Rwf 5.2 billion has been spent on 647 community projects since.<\/p>\n

Speaking to gathered residents of Nyabihu after the handover, Belise Kariza, the RDB Chief Tourism Officer said that tourism revenue share program helps improve the lives of communities living around the national parks and also makes them love the parks.
\n\u201cEvery year, these communities take ownership of the parks and their conservation more importantly and this is what makes our conservation initiatives succeed,\u201d she said.
\n\u201cThis year, thanks to the collaboration with the local authorities, we were able to identify the vulnerable communities\u2019 needs and are glad that the families will be drinking milk every day knowing that they earned it from tourism. It is also my hope that two years from now, the number of cattle we have handed over today will quadruple and benefit even more families,\u201d added Kaliza. <\/p>\n

The Governor of the Western Province, Alphonse Munyantwali thanked RDB for the revenue share program which has transformed residents\u2019 livelihoods. <\/p>\n

\u201cWhen the revenue share program started, the communities surrounding the parks used to receive about Rwf 100 million. Today, the amount has grown to Rwf 1.5 billion, which is a big achievement. I appreciate the fact that today a person that used to set traps for animals in the parks is now able to get milk and other basic needs on a daily basis. Let\u2019s continue protecting the parks so that our region can continue earning more from tourism which will improve people\u2019s lives,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n

Every year, RDB uses 10% of revenues generated from tourists visiting the country\u2019s national parks to fund projects aimed at improving the livelihoods of communities living around the parks.<\/p>\n

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As part of its tourism revenue share program, Rwanda Development Board (RDB) yesterday donated 729 cows to vulnerable families living around the Volcanoes National Park.<\/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-39896","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\/39896","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=39896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39896\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39896"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=39896"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=39896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}