{"id":16365,"date":"2020-06-12T07:04:30","date_gmt":"2020-06-12T07:04:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/?p=16365"},"modified":"2020-06-12T07:04:30","modified_gmt":"2020-06-12T07:04:30","slug":"covid-19-burundi-artists-to-anticipate-market-measures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/covid-19-burundi-artists-to-anticipate-market-measures\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19: Burundi artists to anticipate market measures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Adalbert Hazikimana, Executive Officer in the Sectorial Chamber of Arts and Crafts -SHASAA- says the outbreak of COVID-19 in Burundi has affected the artistic sector. \u201cTourists were our main customers as they could easily find our products in different hotels,\u201d says Hakizimana.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_16366\" style=\"width: 555px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16366\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-16366\" src=\"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/adalbert-hakizimana.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"545\" height=\"313\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/adalbert-hakizimana.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/adalbert-hakizimana-300x173.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/adalbert-hakizimana-768x442.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/adalbert-hakizimana-600x345.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 545px) 100vw, 545px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-16366\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Adalbert hakizimana:&#8221;We are struggling to fight COVID-19. We must benefit from these opportunities to create new products&#8221;<\/p><\/div>\n<p>He says there is a big loss and some artists can no longer fulfil their families\u2019 needs. \u201cWe don\u2019t earn enough revenues to satisfy the needs of our families,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p>CHASAA Executive Officer also says they work in associations to produce good quality products. \u201cWe are struggling to fight COVID-19. We must benefit from these opportunities to create new products,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p>Hakizimana urges all artists to always adjust themselves to the political and economic environment to increase their production. \u201cWe must anticipate the market needs and produce new items. For instance, some artists should make masks as they are needed today,\u201d he says.<br \/>\nBurundi has, so far, registered 83 cases of COVID-19 including 43 recoveries and one death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adalbert Hazikimana, Executive Officer in the Sectorial Chamber of Arts and Crafts -SHASAA- says the outbreak of COVID-19 in Burundi has affected the artistic sector. \u201cTourists were our main customers as they could easily find our products in different hotels,\u201d says Hakizimana. He says there is a big loss and some artists can no longer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":16366,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16365"}],"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=16365"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16367,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16365\/revisions\/16367"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}