{"id":41434,"date":"2020-05-27T16:55:08","date_gmt":"2020-05-27T16:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/city-of-kigali-to-take-over-700-children-off-streets\/"},"modified":"2020-05-31T14:23:11","modified_gmt":"2020-05-31T14:23:11","slug":"city-of-kigali-to-take-over-700-children-off-streets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/city-of-kigali-to-take-over-700-children-off-streets\/","title":{"rendered":"City of Kigali to take over 700 children off streets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the last seven days, the City of Kigali in partnership with the police, Ministry of Gender and Family Promotion and National Children Commission, has been taking street children to designated places where they are screened for Covid-19 and other health problems before being reintegrated into their families.<\/p>\n<p>Mutoni Gatsinzi Nadine, the Vice Mayor of City of Kigali in charge of Socio-economic Affairs said that since the initiative began on March 20, a total of 744 children have been taken off the street; 484 of them rejoined with their families while others were taken to rehabilitation centers. There are 53 children from upcountry while 25 have no families. <\/p>\n<p>Some families being economically hit by the pandemic, closure of schools and domestic violence are part of the reasons why the number of street children has increased.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStreet children and beggars are at risk of catching Covid-19 from the streets. We call upon the public to help us curb the spread of this virus by not giving money to beggars because that might lead to an increase in the spread of Covid-19,\u201d Mutoni said.<\/p>\n<p>she noted that if people need help or want to help, local leaders will facilitate the process. There are safe channels to help people.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Vice Mayor, one of the main reasons that there has been an increase in children taking to the streets is not poverty but irresponsible parenting. When integrating children with their families they sign an agreement that they will protect them from joining the streets again.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn most cases, irresponsible parents are the main reason for children to go to the streets. When the agreement is breached, there are penalties in place,&#8221; she explained.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-35708 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/2-001-10-a35eb.jpg\" alt=\"Mutoni Gatsinzi Nadine, the Vice Mayor of City of Kigali in charge of Socio-economic Affairs \" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An initiative aimed at taking children off the streets has been initiated by the City of Kigali owing to the surging numbers of street children that hit the streets at the advent of the Covid-19 lockdown<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[2942],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-41434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-nicole-kamanzi-m"],"bylines":[{"id":2942,"name":"Nicole Kamanzi M.","slug":"nicole-kamanzi-m","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":null}],"contributors":[{"id":2942,"name":"Nicole Kamanzi M.","slug":"nicole-kamanzi-m","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":null}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41434","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\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41434\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41434"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=41434"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=41434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}