{"id":46430,"date":"2022-08-21T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-21T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/president-kagame-and-first-lady-participate-in-car-free-day\/"},"modified":"2022-08-22T15:31:58","modified_gmt":"2022-08-22T15:31:58","slug":"president-kagame-and-first-lady-participate-in-car-free-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/president-kagame-and-first-lady-participate-in-car-free-day\/","title":{"rendered":"President Kagame and First Lady participate in Car Free Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The sporting event serves to make Kigali a green city while promoting a healthy lifestyle. <\/p>\n<p>On Sunday 21st August 2022, President Kagame and First Lady Jeannette Kagame participated along with the Minister of Sports, Aurore Mimosa Munyangaju; the Mayor of Kigali City, Pudence Rubingisa and Dr. Senait Fisseha, a specialist doctor.    <\/p>\n<p>The bi-monthly Car Free Day usually takes place between 7:00 a.m. and 10:00 a.m. every first and third Sunday of the month, bringing together city dwellers for physical fitness exercises.<\/p>\n<p>The exercise started in 2016, aimed promoting healthy lifestyle among Rwandans and help them benefit from other health activities like screening for non-communicable diseases.<\/p>\n<p>Car Free Day provides a platform to educate people on healthy lifestyle choices in general and creates awareness that roads are not only built for vehicles but also for pedestrians.<\/p>\n<p>Among others, the mass sports helps to reduce air pollution.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-43770 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/fars3q-xgaelp6m-3f862.jpg\" alt=\"President Kagame and First Lady Jeannette Kagame participated in Car Free Day along with the Minister of Sports, Aurore Mimosa Munyangaju; the Mayor of Kigali City, Pudence Rubingisa and Dr. Senait Fisseha, a specialist doctor.\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-43771 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/52299408467_2c64ed02c9_k-96e95.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-43772 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/52299442902_db0683379d_k-e6d4d.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-43773 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/52300395763_77a5788976_k-c1370.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-43774 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/52300429788_aa4ee663f5_c-8e7d2.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-43775 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/52300801496_a1f4ecb041_c-07e06.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-43776 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/fars4kjxoaa3igo-19682.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-43777 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/faqux4pwiaedqld-92445.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-43778 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/faqfgocxeaabb9h-c7bcf.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{President Paul Kagame and First Lady Jeannette Kagame have participated in Car Free Day, the mass sports event which takes place twice a month in Kigali City.}<\/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":[72,75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-46430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-featured-news-home","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\/46430","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=46430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46430\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46430"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=46430"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=46430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}