Rwanda's Umuganda community work resumes, after two-year suspension due to COVID-19

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Rwanda's Umuganda community work resumes, after two-year suspension due to COVID-19

STORY: Rwanda's Umuganda community work resumes, after two-year suspension due to COVID-19 DATELINE: March 28, 2022 LENGTH: 0:03:08 LOCATION: Kigali CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of the community work 2. SOUNDBITE 1 (English): PUDENCE RUBINGISA, Mayor of Kigali 3. SOUNDBITE 2 (Kinyarwanda): NOEL NSHIMIYIMANA, Resident 4. SOUNDBITE 3 (English): VANESSA UMUTONI, Resident STORYLINE: Rwandan citizens on Saturday formally resumed monthly community work, locally known as Umuganda, after significant decline in COVID-19 infections, for the first time since the outbreak of COVID-19 in March 2020. About 1,500 people gathered at Bumbogo, in a suburb of Rwanda's capital city, Kigali, to clear bushes, drainage channels and to sweep the streets during community work. SOUNDBITE 1 (English): PUDENCE RUBINGISA, Mayor of Kigali "We've been joined by the specialists and also the directors-generals from different entities and organs like Rwanda Water Board and the water sector that has been badly affected by the

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