corporate bodies governed by private law. They are under the technical supervision of the Ministry of Higher Education. The establishment, opening, organisation and functioning of the private institutions of higher learning are governed by the relevant texts, particularly Decree No. 2010-386/PRES/PM/MESSRS/MEBA/MASSN of 29 July 2010 on the regulation of private education in Burkina Faso. The functioning of these institutions is governed by specific guidelines. Finally, the private institutions of higher learning receive annual grants from the State to the tune of one hundred million CFA francs (100 000 000). e) Access by children belonging to vulnerable groups to the education system 197. In the area of access to public institutions, keen attention is paid to children of the highly underprivileged sections of the society, both for the implementation of the infrastructural development plan and for the deployment of teaching personnel. The State has taken a number of measures to support parents of pupils by the free distribution of school textbooks, the elimination of school fees at the basic education level and gradually at the post-primary level; they also include the creation of school canteens, the adoption of alternative methods of education (satellite schools, centres of non-formal basic education…), the fight against violence perpetrated against girls in schools, the extension of educational opportunities, the adoption of new mechanisms of education particularly inclusive education, bilingual and trilingual education. f) Measures taken to ensure gender equality at all levels of education 198. Education in Burkina Faso is inclusive. Specific measures have been taken by the government and its partners to support disadvantaged sections of the society. This is a reference to Law No. 012-2010/AN of 1st April 2010 on the protection and promotion of the rights of persons with disabilities and its implementing Decree No. 2012828/PRES/PM/MASSN/MEF/MS/ /MENA/MESS of 22 October 2012 which provides social support measures to people with disabilities in the area of education. Furthermore, a National Multisectoral Council for the Protection and Promotion of Persons with Disabilities (COMUD/Handicap) has been established by Decree No. 2012406/PRES/PM/MASSN/MEF/MS of 15 May, 2012. The members of the above Council were inaugurated on 8 November 2012. It aims at combining the efforts of the various stakeholders making interventions in the area of promotion and protection of the rights of people with disabilities in order to properly incorporate their concerns. 199. Furthermore, the Government adopted a National Accelerated Girl-Child Education Strategy (SNAEF) on 8 June, 2012. The objective of this strategy is to contribute to the establishment of an education system devoid of all forms of gender-based inequalities and abuses by providing for both girls and boys the essential conditions for their access, maintenance and success in schools and for their socio-professional lives. 200. With regard to the young ones who have no education or have dropped out of school, they have been integrated through the opening of non-formal basic education centres (104 centres in 2012), the gradual development of bridges between the formal and non-formal education (70 centres between 2011 and 2012), the validation of benchmarks for experimentation and innovations in non-formal basic education. Moreover, partners of civil society also make interventions to promote non-formal education of teenagers. 51