{"id":46906,"date":"2022-10-25T10:42:11","date_gmt":"2022-10-25T10:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/president-kagame-points-out-needed-actions-for-africa-s-desired-dignity\/"},"modified":"2022-10-28T12:21:48","modified_gmt":"2022-10-28T12:21:48","slug":"president-kagame-points-out-needed-actions-for-africa-s-desired-dignity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/president-kagame-points-out-needed-actions-for-africa-s-desired-dignity\/","title":{"rendered":"President Kagame points out needed actions for Africa\u2019s desired dignity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Head of State was addressing participants of the African Philanthropy Forum (APF) Conference taking place for two days in Kigali.   <\/p>\n<p>The African Philanthropy Forum is a strong and vibrant community of partners who through their strategic giving, investments and influence, foster shared prosperity on the African continent. <\/p>\n<p>Established in 2014, PF seeks to promote philanthropies with the involvement of Africans and strive for an inclusive development of the African continent.   <\/p>\n<p>It brings together over 1400 philanthropists from across the world.  <\/p>\n<p>As he presided over the opening ceremony of the forum\u2019s two-day conference on Monday 24th October 2022, President Kagame highlighted the need to increase Africans participation in philanthropies.     <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIncreasing philanthropic initiatives by African individuals and organizations is critically important, but not only because of the money. It is about having the dignity, as Africans, to choose for ourselves the future we want, and work diligently towards it, together,\u201d he said.  <\/p>\n<p>The conference is held under the theme \u201cAfrican Philanthropists Closing the Gender Gap.\u201d It brought together stakeholders in the African philanthropy community to intensify partnerships for greater impact in the gender equity and empowerment space.<\/p>\n<p>Commenting on the issue of gender inequalities, Kagame said: \u201cDiscrimination against women and girls is fuelled by distorted mindsets that perceive women as inferior to men. To begin with, men must reject and reverse this. Now, even women, you must refuse that. They are not inferior.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rwanda hosts the meeting at a time when it is among top countries promoting the principle of gender balance.  <\/p>\n<p>Currently, Rwanda registers 65% of women representation in parliament and 50% in the cabinet.  <\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-44883 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/kg-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-44882 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/kag2.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-44881 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/kag0.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-44880 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/52451386635_6afb1d68da_b-1d044.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-44878 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/kg1.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-44880 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/52451386635_6afb1d68da_b-1d044.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{President Paul Kagame has stressed the need to increase philanthropic initiatives by African individuals and organizations if Africans are to strive for dignity and to choose for themselves the future they want. }<\/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":[160],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-46906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-featured-news-home","tag-homenews","byline-theophile-niyitegeka"],"bylines":[{"id":160,"name":"Th\u00e9ophile Niyitegeka","slug":"theophile-niyitegeka","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":3}],"contributors":[{"id":160,"name":"Th\u00e9ophile Niyitegeka","slug":"theophile-niyitegeka","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":3}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46906","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=46906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46906\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46906"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=46906"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=46906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}