{"id":4236,"date":"2012-11-22T01:06:25","date_gmt":"2012-11-22T01:06:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/rwandans-in-midwest-usa-contribute-50-000-to\/"},"modified":"2012-11-22T01:06:14","modified_gmt":"2012-11-22T01:06:14","slug":"rwandans-in-midwest-usa-contribute-50-000-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/rwandans-in-midwest-usa-contribute-50-000-to\/","title":{"rendered":"Rwandans in Midwest USA Contribute $ 50, 000 to Agaciro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{{The Rwandan American Communities in the states of Indiana and Michigan became the first community to officially launch the Agaciro Development in the US, with a contribution of US$50,960 (Rwf33m).}}<\/p>\n<p>In an event attended by over 200 guests, last week, Rwanda\u2019s ambassador to US, James Kimonyo, applauded those who contributed for showing commitment to their country despite living outside.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRwandans in the US continue to mirror exemplary commitment in their actions- and this is all derived in the fact that they are proud of their country and want to show their value for it,\u201d Kimonyo said.<\/p>\n<p>Gaetan Gatete, the president of Rwandan Community in Michigan and Indiana emphasized the purpose of Agaciro Development Fund as a program that will in the future accelerate Rwanda\u2019s development.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis fund will supplement other sources of revenue so as to accelerate the country\u2019s social-economic development,\u201d said Edda Mukabagwiza, Rwandan High Commissioner to Canada, in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{{The Rwandan American Communities in the states of Indiana and Michigan became the first community to officially launch the Agaciro Development in the US, with a contribution of US$50,960 (Rwf33m).}} In an event attended by over 200 guests, last week, Rwanda\u2019s ambassador to US, James Kimonyo, applauded those who contributed for showing commitment to their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-4236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diaspora","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\/4236","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4236\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4236"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=4236"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=4236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}