{"id":41594,"date":"2020-06-26T12:38:54","date_gmt":"2020-06-26T12:38:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/rwanda-olympians-association-celebrates-olympic-day\/"},"modified":"2020-06-28T11:08:24","modified_gmt":"2020-06-28T11:08:24","slug":"rwanda-olympians-association-celebrates-olympic-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/rwanda-olympians-association-celebrates-olympic-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Rwanda Olympians Association Celebrates Olympic Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday, 23 June the world was celebrating the Olympic Day.  The day that is usually characterized by mass sports activities that bring together youth in different competitions. However, this year due to coronavirus it was not celebrated as it was meant to; instead, ROA joined RNOSC in a campaign of prevention against the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>Alex Sharangabo, who is the Secretary General of the RNOSC and the President of the Rwanda Olympians Association, said that the purpose of this year\u2019s activity was to remind people of the fact that in these days of the pandemic people need to care about each other\u2019s health.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSince we cannot organize any kind of sports activity due to the pandemic that is affecting all Rwandans, our first plan was to share some of the Olympic values with taxi-motos, contributing in the fight against the coronavirus,\u201d he said<\/p>\n<p>Gervais Munyanziza, representing the Ministry of Sports applauded the initiative of ROA and RNOSC.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need to be healthy to do sport, and the organizers of this activity understood that for people to resume normal life it is important to face together this pandemic; let those that received these hand sanitizers today use them to the full purpose they were intended for. Thus, contributing in the victory we will soon be having over the coronavirus.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Daniel Ngarambe, president of the Rwanda Motorcycle Association (FERWACOTAMO) said that they are pleased to have been thought of in these times. He promised the participation of Taxi-motos in the fight against the Coronavirus.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-35987 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/img_0140.jpg\" alt=\"Rwanda Olympians Association (ROA) distributing hand sanitizers to more than 700 taxi-motos in the City of Kigali, thus, contributing to the fight against the coronavirus.\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-35988 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/img_0081.jpg\" alt=\"Alexis Sharangabo, the President of the Rwanda Olympians Association said that in these days of the pandemic people need to care about each other\u2019s health.\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-35989 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/img_0092.jpg\" alt=\"Rwanda Olympian Association in a campaign of prevention against the COVID-19 pandemic at the Olympic Day\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rwanda Olympians Association (ROA) in partnership with the Rwanda National Olympic and Sports Committee (RNOSC) has donated hand sanitizers to more than 700 taxi-motos in the City of Kigali, thus, contributing to the fight against the coronavirus.<\/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-41594","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\/41594","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=41594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41594\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41594"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=41594"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=41594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}