{"id":40329,"date":"2019-11-07T16:55:21","date_gmt":"2019-11-07T16:55:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/india-hands-over-100-000-didactic-books-to-rwanda\/"},"modified":"2019-11-11T12:12:13","modified_gmt":"2019-11-11T12:12:13","slug":"india-hands-over-100-000-didactic-books-to-rwanda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/india-hands-over-100-000-didactic-books-to-rwanda\/","title":{"rendered":"India hands over 100,000 didactic books to Rwanda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oscar Kerkejta, India\u2019s ambassador in Rwanda said that the donation reflects cooperation between both countries.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is a donation promised by our Prime Minister during his visit to Rwanda last year.<br \/>\nIndia enjoys existing cooperation with Rwanda in different areas including education.  We chose to provide science books because the field is constituted of complex courses. Using such didactic books helps students to understand better sciences,\u201d he said.  <\/p>\n<p>The Director-General of REB, Dr. Iren\u00e9e Ndayambaje explained that such books will be used by students in 9 and 12 years of basic education programs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSchools with Nine and twelve years\u2019 education program have the most pressing issues of books\u2019 shortage,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n<p>Dr. Ndayambaje underscored that such books will bring remarkable productivity given that the country is targeting a knowledge-based economy.<\/p>\n<p>Rwanda, India&#8217;s diplomatic relations date back in 1999. <\/p>\n<p>Currently, Indians are continuously increasing investment in Rwanda.  A total of 66 projects worth US$317 million were recorded between 2011 and 2016 including Airtel, Zinc Hotel and Mahatma Gandhi University.<\/p>\n<p> Indians have also invested in Gisovu Tea Factory, Imana Steel and Sahasra Electronics Pvt Ltd among others.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-33306 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/ubwo_umuyobozi_wa_reb_drndayambaje_irenee_yashyikirizwagwa_impano_y_ibitabo_n_uhagarariye_ubuhinde_mu_rwnada_oscar_kerkejta-0eafe.jpg\" alt=\"Dr. Ndayambaje underscored that such books will bring remarkable productivity given that the country is targeting a knowledge-based economy.\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-33307 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/bamwe_mu_bari_bitabiriye_uyu_muhango-4-ec793.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-33308 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/uhagarariye_ubuhinde_mu_rwanada_oscar_kerkejta-f9884.jpg\" alt=\"Oscar Kerkejta, India\u2019s ambassador in Rwanda said that the donation reflects cooperation between both countries.\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-33309 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/bimwe_mu_bitabo_byatanzwe-66d5c.jpg\" alt=\"India hands over 100,000 didactic books to Rwanda \" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Government of India has through Rwanda Education Board (REB) donated to Rwanda a total of 100,000 didactic books of Mathematics, Chemistry, Biology and Physics for students in 9 and 12 years basic education.  The books were handed over today to Rwanda Education Board.<\/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-40329","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\/40329","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=40329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40329\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40329"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=40329"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=40329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}