{"id":44616,"date":"2021-10-15T11:53:05","date_gmt":"2021-10-15T11:53:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/construction-of-4759-classrooms-in-western-province-nears-completion\/"},"modified":"2021-10-15T12:01:45","modified_gmt":"2021-10-15T12:01:45","slug":"construction-of-4759-classrooms-in-western-province-nears-completion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/construction-of-4759-classrooms-in-western-province-nears-completion\/","title":{"rendered":"Construction of 4759 classrooms in Western Province nears completion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In June 2020, the Government of Rwanda launched a project to build 22,505 classrooms and 31, 932 latrines to reduce overcrowding and long walk for some students to reach schools.<\/p>\n<p>They were built on funding of the World Bank in collaboration with the Government of Rwanda while citizens lend a hand through community work.<\/p>\n<p>Habitegeko has said that construction of 4759 classrooms in Western Province nears completion.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cPresident of the Republic capacitated us to build 4759 classrooms in this province through performance contracts of the just ended year. We have not yet reached 100% by the time schools resumed but we are glad that 96,3% of targeted classrooms  have been completed. The remaining 3.7% will also be completed in the near future,\u201d he said.  <\/p>\n<p>Father Paulin Mushimiyimana, the head teacher of Saint Pierre Groupe Scolaire in Kivumu sector has said that eight newly constructed classrooms have helped to reduce overcrowding.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cNew classrooms have played a significant role in reducing students\u2019 overcrowding especially in Kivumu sector and the school I am heading.  Before, a classroom would accommodate 70 students, a number which has reduced to 45 and 50. This shows how the classrooms were very much needed,\u201d he said.  <\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-39791 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/class.jpg\" alt=\"The construction of 4759 classrooms in Western Province has reached 96%. \" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{The Governor of Western Province, Fran\u00e7ois Habitegeko has commended the progress of the project of building new classrooms and urged contractors to speed up activities to complete remaining facilities.}  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-44616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","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\/44616","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=44616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44616\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44616"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=44616"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=44616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}