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
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