{"id":33864,"date":"2018-03-28T07:09:50","date_gmt":"2018-03-28T07:09:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kfm.co.ug\/?p=33864"},"modified":"2018-03-28T07:09:50","modified_gmt":"2018-03-28T07:09:50","slug":"bright-rwamirama-increasing-number-of-unemployed-veterans-a-big-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/bright-rwamirama-increasing-number-of-unemployed-veterans-a-big-threat\/","title":{"rendered":"Bright Rwamirama &#8211; Increasing number of unemployed veterans a big threat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>By Benjamin Jumbe.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Minister of State for Defence in charge of Veterans, Bright Rwamirama says the increasing number of unemployed veterans poses a big threat to the country.<\/p>\n<p>He says there is need to mobilize and integrate the veterans with gainful skills, re-train and re-skill them as well as take them through psycho social training and counselling to help them fit well within their families and communities.<\/p>\n<p>Rwamirama was speaking at a ceremony for the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding between the army and UNDP on a UN Integrated Support Program to the force.<\/p>\n<p>The program aligned to Uganda\u2019s vision 2040 notes that peace, security and defence are one of the fundamentals for galvanizing and harnessing Uganda&#8217;s economy.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile speaking at the same partnership meeting, UN Resident Coordinator Rosa Malango, reiterated the UN\u2019s commitment to helping UPDF veterans,widows and orphans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Benjamin Jumbe. The Minister of State for Defence in charge of Veterans, Bright Rwamirama says the increasing number of unemployed veterans poses a big threat to the country. He says there is need to mobilize and integrate the veterans with gainful skills, re-train and re-skill them as well as take them through psycho social training and counselling to help them fit well within their families and communities. Rwamirama was speaking at a ceremony for the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding between the army and UNDP on a UN Integrated Support Program to the force. The program aligned to Uganda\u2019s vision 2040 notes that peace, security and defence are one of the fundamentals for galvanizing and harnessing Uganda&#8217;s economy. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":33865,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[134,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national-news-news","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33864"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33864\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}