{"id":41500,"date":"2020-06-08T12:17:08","date_gmt":"2020-06-08T12:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/covid-19-resilience-vivo-energy-supports-taxi-motorcyclists-with-5-000-liters\/"},"modified":"2020-06-08T12:16:52","modified_gmt":"2020-06-08T12:16:52","slug":"covid-19-resilience-vivo-energy-supports-taxi-motorcyclists-with-5-000-liters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/covid-19-resilience-vivo-energy-supports-taxi-motorcyclists-with-5-000-liters\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 Resilience: Vivo Energy supports taxi-motorcyclists with 5,000 liters of fuel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The lead fuel marketers in Rwanda have donated 5,000 liters to be distributed to thousands of motorists across the country.<\/p>\n<p>The Vivo Energy Rwanda Managing Director, Sarah Doukour\u00e9, said the idea was hatched after realizing that motorists were among the worst affected by COVID-19 prevention measures, part of which included suspending taxi-motor activities.<\/p>\n<p>She explained that the donation is part of a contribution to recovery efforts, giving relief to people whose health and livelihoods are continuously affected by the novel coronavirus.   <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlthough all of us were affected in one way or another, there is a special group among us who were severely impacted by the lockdown- the taxi-moto operators. Their only source of income was put on hold yet they have families to feed,\u201d she said.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs we adjust to the normal situation, they need a bit of hoist to be able to get back on the road. In this regard, Vivo Energy Rwanda pledges 5,000 litres of fuel to be donated to commercial motorcyclists across the country,\u201d added Doukoure. <\/p>\n<p>Doukour\u00e9 says the fuel will be provided to the most impacted motorcyclists, with the help of the Rwanda Motorcycle Cooperative, Ferwacotamo.<\/p>\n<p>One of Engen customers and a motorist, Ndatimana Aimable, praised the initiative, saying it will go a long way in giving a big push to motorists that had difficulties getting fuel as they resume work after a long lull.<\/p>\n<p>Ndatimana shares this sentiment with his colleague Harerimana<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStaying at home had a very big toll on our incomes and life has been full of daily survival struggles. The Engen kind gesture has come in handy,\u201d appreciated. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re going to start work but we were just starting with nothing. All our small savings had got exhausted.  Thank you Engen for helping us,&#8221; Ferwacotamo member, Mayor Ngarambe said.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the fuel, Engen Rwanda has also provided masks to the motorists as a way of further ushering them back into business. <\/p>\n<p>For those wishing to donate to this campaign, they can do so via Twitter using #FuelMyMoto where they can agree to donate fuel or money and even pay for it using MTN Mobile Money by typing * 182 * 8 * 1 * 222222 * money #.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-35842 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/arton135086-53cc6.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-35843 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/umuyobozi_wa_vivo_energy_rwanda_atangiza_ubu_bukangurambaga_ku_mugaragaro-75ada.jpg\" alt=\"Doukour\u00e9 says the fuel will be provided to the most impacted motorcyclists, with the help of the Rwanda Motorcycle Cooperative, Ferwacotamo.\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-35844 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/ni_ubukangurambaga_engen_rwanda_yemeye_gutangamo_lisansi_litiro_5000-66e10.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-35845 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/umuyobozi_wa_ferwacotamo_ngarambe_daniel_yashimye_ubu_bukangurambaga_bwatangijwe_na_engen-28987.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-35846 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/umuyobozi_wa_vivo_energy_rwanda_doukoure_ahereza_umwe_mu_ba_motari_agapfukamunwa-62281.jpg\" alt=\"The Vivo Energy Rwanda Managing Director, Sarah Doukour\u00e9 handing a face-mask to a moto driver\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vivo Energy, which also owns Engen Rwanda, has launched a campaign dubbed  #FuelMyMoto to help motorcyclists affected by COVID-19 by giving them fuel so they can seamlessly return to work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":103,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[204],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-41500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-elina-jonas-ruzindaza"],"bylines":[{"id":204,"name":"Elina Jonas Ruzindaza","slug":"elina-jonas-ruzindaza","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":103}],"contributors":[{"id":204,"name":"Elina Jonas Ruzindaza","slug":"elina-jonas-ruzindaza","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":103}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41500","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\/103"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41500\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41500"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=41500"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=41500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}