{"id":41516,"date":"2020-06-12T05:31:17","date_gmt":"2020-06-12T05:31:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/mara-phones-donates-40-000-face-masks-to-covid-19-fight\/"},"modified":"2020-06-12T05:31:04","modified_gmt":"2020-06-12T05:31:04","slug":"mara-phones-donates-40-000-face-masks-to-covid-19-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/mara-phones-donates-40-000-face-masks-to-covid-19-fight\/","title":{"rendered":"Mara Phones donates 40,000 face masks to COVID-19 fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The CEO of Mara Phones Rwanda Eddy Sebera explained that the donation is a gesture is meant to protect customers and employees as well.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cMara Phones had suspended activities for two months following measures put in place to contain the spread of Coronavirus.  We have donated 40,000 face masks to support Government\u2019s efforts,\u201d he said.  <\/p>\n<p>The face masks made in Hong Kong in China have been handed to Rwanda Biomedical Center (RBC) to be distributed to beneficiaries.  <\/p>\n<p>Funds to buy the face masks came from Mara Phones employees and board committee\u2019s contributions.  <\/p>\n<p>Located at Plot No. 2166 Kigali Special Economic Zone, Ndera, Gasabo District, Kigali, Mara Phones Rwanda Factory, is first Africa&#8217;s high tech smartphone factory inaugurated last year in October.  <\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-35868 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/moses_pictures1_13-a4709.jpg\" alt=\"The CEO of Mara Phones Rwanda Eddy Sebera explained that the donation is a gesture is meant to protect customers and employees as well.  \" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-35869 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/face_mask_handover_igihe_2020-802ce.jpg\" alt=\"Mara Phones Rwanda has donated 40,000 face masks as a way of supporting the Government of Rwanda in the fight against the spread of the COVID-19.    \" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mara Phones Rwanda has donated 40,000 face masks as a way of supporting the Government of Rwanda that continues to intensify efforts in controlling the spread of coronavirus that causes \u2019s COVID-19.     Face masks have been recommended by the World Health Organization as one of the ways through which COVID-19 spread can be contained.<\/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-41516","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\/41516","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=41516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41516\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41516"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=41516"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=41516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}