7.4 Furthermore to promote a safe education environment for children especially girls in rural areas, Government is taking measures to reduce walking distances to schools by increasing the number of schools, ensuring that there is a secondary school for every three primary schools. 7.5 Government is seized with the construction of schools through the Public Sector Investment Programme (PSIP), Public Private Partnerships (PPPs) and support from development partners. The objective is to ensure that no primary school child walks more than 5 km and no secondary school child walks more than 10 kms to get to school and that double sessioning is eradicated. 7.6 Government is implementing the Child Friendly Schools concept, focusing on the creation of a healthy, safe, friendly and protective learning environment for all children regardless of sex. This entails among others, protecting all children from harm, either neglect, abuse, violence or exploitation so that their other rights to survival, development and participation can be fully met. 7.7 Government has also incorporated the Victim Friendly System into the education sector with a view to empower learners to report abuse. In addition, Child Protection Committees have been established in schools to handle cases of child abuse and provide learners with information on the channels for reporting abuse. Government has put in place teams of educational psychologists who offer psycho-educational counselling to affected learners in order to minimize the trauma of abuse and its effect on the learning process. 7.8 A Government directive has seen enrolment of women at technical and teachers’ colleges increase to 30 and 50% respectively. In this Page | 88