{"id":42319,"date":"2020-11-28T11:52:40","date_gmt":"2020-11-28T11:52:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/rwanda-athletics-federation-receives-equipment-from-germany\/"},"modified":"2020-11-28T11:54:12","modified_gmt":"2020-11-28T11:54:12","slug":"rwanda-athletics-federation-receives-equipment-from-germany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/rwanda-athletics-federation-receives-equipment-from-germany\/","title":{"rendered":"Rwanda Athletics Federation  receives equipment from Germany"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The handover took place this Saturday at RAF headquarters in Remera in presence of Germany ambassador in Rwanda, Dr Thomas Kurz and RAF President , Fid\u00e8le Mubiligi.<\/p>\n<p>Received kits include starting-blocks, shotput, discus, javelin and baton relays.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Thomas Kurz revealed that the donations align with efforts to support athletics in Rwanda and assured continues support in different areas. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is part of existing partnership. Even though some activities were suspended due to COVID-19, we hope they will resume next year and continue training coaches like we did last year in November.  Some coaches are given scholarship for training in Germany and hope to continue doing so,\u201d he said.  <\/p>\n<p>The President of RAF, Fid\u00e8le Mubiligi explained there was a gap before receiving the equipment.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe had shortage of such equipment yet available ones are outdated. It will help us to prepare our athletes to get familiar with better equipment and use them accordingly during international competitions,\u201d he said.  <\/p>\n<p>RAF also revealed that these equipment will enable to organize more competitions that were suspended over scarce resources.   <\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-37258 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/ambasaderi_w_u_budage_mu_rwanda_dr_thomas_kurz_ashyikiriza_ubuyobozi_bwa_raf_ibikoresho_byifashishwa_mu_mikino_ngororamubiri.jpg\" alt=\"The handover took place this Saturday at RAF headquarters in Remera in presence of Germany ambassador in Rwanda, Dr Thomas Kurz and RAF President , Fid\u00e8le Mubiligi.\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{In a bid to strengthen existing cooperation, Germany has donated various kits used during athletic competitions to Rwanda Athletics Federation (RAF). }  <\/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":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-42319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","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":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","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":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42319","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=42319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42319\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42319"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=42319"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=42319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}