{"id":19120,"date":"2025-06-06T22:44:30","date_gmt":"2025-06-06T22:44:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.paulkagame.rw\/?p=19120"},"modified":"2025-06-26T09:46:04","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T09:46:04","slug":"president-kagame-meets-with-hope-haven-christian-school-delegation-kigali-6-june-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/?p=19120","title":{"rendered":"President Kagame meets with Hope Haven Christian School Delegation | Kigali, 6 June 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u201cThank you – for doing what our country and our people needed. When we began this journey, there was an urgent need for people to have access to education. That need has not gone away. Education never stops being important.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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I remember my own beginnings. As a young boy in a refugee camp, we studied under trees. We used our thighs as notebooks and dry pieces of grass as pens. That gave us a good start. It was difficult – but we knew it was the right thing to do. Even in those harsh conditions, we understood the value of learning.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Later, during the struggle to liberate our country, we found ourselves once again in a different kind of school – this time, in the forests. We were still learning. Every step of that journey was a lesson. The mission to liberate our country was, in many ways, a mission to discover the truth – about ourselves, our people, and our responsibilities.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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When you provide education, you are not just teaching – you are helping young people reach their dreams and shape the future of our country.\u201d President Kagame | Meeting with a delegation from the Hope Haven Christian School, led by Founder and President, Hollern Susan.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cThank you – for doing what our country and our people needed. When we began this journey, there was an urgent need for people to have access to education. That need has not gone away. Education never stops being important. I remember my own beginnings. As a young boy in a refugee camp, we studied under trees. We used our thighs as notebooks and dry pieces of grass as pens. That gave us a good start. It was difficult –…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":19121,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","post-has-thumbnail"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19120"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19122,"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19120\/revisions\/19122"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}