{"id":46904,"date":"2022-10-25T08:03:09","date_gmt":"2022-10-25T08:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/kagame-receives-graca-machel\/"},"modified":"2022-10-27T06:40:53","modified_gmt":"2022-10-27T06:40:53","slug":"kagame-receives-graca-machel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/kagame-receives-graca-machel\/","title":{"rendered":"Kagame receives Gra\u00e7a Machel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rwanda\u2019s Presidency has revealed via Twitter handle that Kagame met with Gra\u00e7a Machel on Monday 24th October 2022. <\/p>\n<p>She has come to Rwanda to attend a two-day African Philanthropy Forum (APF) Conference taking place in Kigali.  <\/p>\n<p>Gra\u00e7a Machel,77, is the Founder of Gra\u00e7a Machel Trust and the Foundation for Community Development. <\/p>\n<p>She is the only woman in modern history to have served as First Lady of two countries; South Africa and Mozambique. <\/p>\n<p>Gra\u00e7a Machel is one of the world\u2019s leading advocates for women\u2019s and children\u2019s rights and has been a social justice and political activist for many decades. <\/p>\n<p>She established the Gra\u00e7a Machel Trust in 2010 as a Pan-African advocacy organisation focused on child health and nutrition, education, women\u2019s economic and financial empowerment, leadership and good governance. <\/p>\n<p>Over the past years, the Trust has worked to \u201cMultiply the Faces and Amplify the Voices\u201d of African women and children. <\/p>\n<p>Through collaboration with partners, at all levels, the organization has helped promote and strengthen women and children\u2019s networks to drive social and economic change. <\/p>\n<p>The Gra\u00e7a Machel Trust acts as a catalyst, working across the continent to advocate for the protection of children\u2019s rights and dignity, and amplify women\u2019s movements by harnessing and promoting their contributions to the economic, social and political development of Africa. <\/p>\n<p>It works with global, regional and local partners who are passionate about creating profound change in the issues of focus. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-44876 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/ff10yuwwiaea52b-72570.jpg\" alt=\"President Kagame has held talks with Gra\u00e7a Machel. \" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{President Paul Kagame has received a Mozambican Gra\u00e7a Machel, the widow of Nelson Mandelan and Graca Machel who once served as former President South Africa and Mozambique respectively.} <\/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-46904","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\/46904","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=46904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46904\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46904"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=46904"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=46904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}