citizen to have access to health facilities within one-hour walking distance and at least one health centre at every administrative Sector by 2015. Article 17(1): The Right to Education and to the Freedom of Cultural Life A. Right to education 135. Legislative measures, policies, institutional and administrative measures have been put in place to facilitate development of education. The Government has invested in providing facilities that enable equal access to education for all with the aim of turning Rwanda into a knowledge based economy. This is done through the continued guarantee of universal primary education for the first 12 years of education and the up-scaling of the one laptop per child project which started in 2007 and is ongoing to date. Rwanda is gradually breaking barriers that usually prevent children from attending primary education by the abolition of school fees and by constructing more classrooms at the Administrative Sector level where children can easily walk home. This programme has been adopted to enable the country to achieve the goal of Education for All (Universal Primary Education and Universal Secondary Education). 136. ‘One Laptop per child program’ was put in place with the mission to distribute laptops to primary schools all over the country. Education for children with physical or mental disabilities was introduced and 386 teachers were trained on the methodology for such classes. The enrolment rate of student from in 2015 is as follow: Pre-primary education all students were 183,658, among other boys were 49, 08% and girls 50, 92%. Primary education, all students were 2,450,705, among them boys were 49.5% and girls 50.5% in secondary education35. 137. The government of Rwanda is focused on equipping people with skills who may create jobs rather than seek jobs. To achieve the government has increased the number of teachers in primary and secondary schools. The second step was training both those already in service and the newly recruited teachers. About 47 080 primary and secondary teachers in service were trained, 5 798 new primary and secondary teachers were recruited and 35 Mineduc report of June 2016 Page 50 of 105

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