{"id":37277,"date":"2018-07-25T12:27:26","date_gmt":"2018-07-25T12:27:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=37277"},"modified":"2018-07-25T12:27:26","modified_gmt":"2018-07-25T12:27:26","slug":"modi-gifts-200-cows-to-rwanda-villagers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/modi-gifts-200-cows-to-rwanda-villagers\/","title":{"rendered":"Modi gifts 200 cows to Rwanda villagers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi<br \/>\nPrime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday gifted 200 cows to villagers at Rweru Model village in the Bugesera district of the Easter Province in Rwanda. Supporting the Rwandan government\u2019s Girinka programme, the cows were handed over to villagers who do not yet own a cow, in the presence of President Paul Kagame.<\/p>\n<p>Appreciating the Girinka initiative, Modi underlined that \u201cpeople in India too would be pleasantly surprised to see the cow being given such importance as a means of economic empowerment in villages, in faraway Rwanda\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Initiated by Kagame to fight high rates of childhood malnutrition and integrate livestock and crop farming into rural economy, Girinka roughly translates into \u201cmay you have a cow\u201d. It marks a centuries-old cultural practice in Rwanda of gifting cows as a sign of respect and gratitude. Modi drew similarities between the rural lives and economies of India and Rwanda.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday gifted 200 cows to villagers at Rweru Model village in the Bugesera district of the Easter Province in Rwanda. Supporting the Rwandan government\u2019s Girinka programme, the cows were handed over to villagers who do not yet own a cow, in the presence of President Paul Kagame. Appreciating [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37278,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[312],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-india"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37277"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37279,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37277\/revisions\/37279"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}