{"id":41761,"date":"2020-07-28T06:41:05","date_gmt":"2020-07-28T06:41:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/covid-19-government-to-provide-food-to-private-school-teachers\/"},"modified":"2020-07-28T06:40:38","modified_gmt":"2020-07-28T06:40:38","slug":"covid-19-government-to-provide-food-to-private-school-teachers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/covid-19-government-to-provide-food-to-private-school-teachers\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID 19: Government to provide food to private school teachers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cabinet meeting on April 30, 2020, to curb the Coronavirus pandemic, decided that schools would remain closed until September, prompting many private schools to suspend contracts with teachers.<\/p>\n<p>It is a decision that has made lives of the teachers worse because since March they haven\u2019t received a salary. As a result, some teachers were chased from the rented houses, and others looked for other opportunities to survive.<\/p>\n<p>In June this year, Umwarimu Sacco launched a loan scheme called \u2018Iramiro\u2019, through which private schools will be given loans so that they can continue to pay teachers who are currently affected by the Coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>Teachers in private schools, however, say that the private schools&#8217; managers have chosen not to take out the loan, and so in a way, the affected teachers will not benefit from the scheme.<\/p>\n<p>The Prime Minister, Dr. Ngirente, when addressing members of Parliament on Strategies for Preventing and Combating the Covid-19, said that the issue of private institutions ignoring the loan opportunity to enable them pay teachers will be responded to with an actionable intervention.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have encouraged private institutions to take out loans from the teachers&#8217; Sacco but we have already noted that some schools are reluctant to take the offer, so we shall take another intervention,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister Dr. Ngirente said there is a plan to provide food to private school teachers who haven\u2019t been paid for a while. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome have asked us to provide them with food regularly and we are doing it. There is a plan to help them because there are some who have not been paid for a long time. Those who fall in the category of people who have not been able to earn anything since Covid-19 started will be supported so that they don\u2019t sleep without eating\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>On the issue of schools refusing to pay teachers&#8217; salaries, the Minister of Education, Dr. Uwamariya Valentine, said that they could not force private schools to take a loan to pay teachers&#8217; salaries since they will not help them to pay back the debts. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-36336 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/uu-13-6ffaf.jpg\" alt=\"Prime Minister Dr. Edouard Ngirente said that the government plans to provide food to some teachers in private schools because they have not been paid for a while.\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Dr. Edouard Ngirente last week told members of parliament that the government has a plan to provide food to some teachers in private schools after some asked for it because they have not been paid for a while.<\/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-41761","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\/41761","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=41761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41761\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41761"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=41761"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=41761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}