{"id":10072,"date":"2018-09-07T14:55:26","date_gmt":"2018-09-07T14:55:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/?p=10072"},"modified":"2018-09-07T14:58:50","modified_gmt":"2018-09-07T14:58:50","slug":"burundi-parents-and-students-ready-for-new-school-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/burundi-parents-and-students-ready-for-new-school-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Burundi: Parents and students ready for new school year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since the education ministry has announced the date of the beginning of the new school year, parents and students hurry to buy school materials. Notebooks, uniforms, pencils, pens\u2026 are displayed in different places of the capital Bujumbura.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_10071\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10071\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10071\" src=\"http:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Materiauxl-scolaires.jpg\" alt=\"School materials displayed in one of the halls at \u201cPalais des Arts\u201d in Bujumbura \" width=\"800\" height=\"460\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Materiauxl-scolaires.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Materiauxl-scolaires-300x173.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Materiauxl-scolaires-768x442.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Materiauxl-scolaires-600x345.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-10071\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">School materials displayed in one of the halls at \u201cPalais des Arts\u201d in Bujumbura<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Pasteur Bizimana, a seller in Bujumbura says parents and students often start to buy school materials one week before the beginning of the school year. \u201cWe spent at least two months without having customers\u201d, he says adding that parents and students often buy school materials at the last minute. Another vendor says they have reduced the price to attract more clients. \u201cA notebook of 200 pages costs BIF 1000 like last year\u201d, he says.<\/p>\n<p>Eliazard Ngendakumasabo, one of the parents says the price of school materials haven\u2019t changed a lot. \u201cTraders should not change the price if they have failed to reduce it,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p>In the ministerial ordinance issued on 4 September, the beginning of the new school year is set on 10 September throughout the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since the education ministry has announced the date of the beginning of the new school year, parents and students hurry to buy school materials. Notebooks, uniforms, pencils, pens\u2026 are displayed in different places of the capital Bujumbura. Pasteur Bizimana, a seller in Bujumbura says parents and students often start to buy school materials one week [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":10071,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9,670],"tags":[108,113],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10072"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10072"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10073,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10072\/revisions\/10073"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}