well as psychosocial accompaniment. This initiative has enabled to federate all the other actors around a consensus approach. 256 In addition to the role of public authorities, it is worth mentioning the action of SOS Children's Village which is an international NGO operating in Benin for the management and rehabilitation of orphans. The NGO is establishing several agencies in all the regions of the country for a community-based intervention. 257 Some local NGO like the centre of PAIX de Natitingou, also follows the model of care of SOS Children's Village. 258 However, the Republic of Benin has adopted since 2012 an order which addresses from then on the care of children in reception centres. 259 According to MDG 6.4 (school attendance ratio of orphans compared to non-orphans), the MICS shows that the proportion of children attending school, aged from 10 to 14, who have lost both parents divided by the proportion attending school, aged from 10 to 14 and whose both parents are alive, and who live with one or both of their parents, is 0.78. VIII. EDUCATION, RECREATION AND CULTURAL ACTIVITIES: o Regulation of the child right to education in Benin The MDG N°1 to 6 and particularly the MDG N° 2 to 6 are dedicated to education. 260 Under the legal regulation, the right to education is provided by articles 12 to 14 of the constitution. 261 This constitutional guarantee is strengthened by other laws among which, the law N°2003-17 of November 2003 relating to the orientation of the national education in the Republic of Benin. By this law, the Government shows it is willing to make school accessible for all. 262 In the article 14 of the law, three levels of education are acknowledged which are preprimary and primary education, general secondary and technical and vocational secondary education for youth retraining and integration, and Higher Education and Scientific Research. 263 The new Child Code which acknowledges in its article 112 the responsibility of the Government in schooling, institutes, on the one hand, compulsory schooling for the child at the care of the parent (art 113) and, on the other hand, completion of the fourth year in primary school (art 116), strengthening of free services as already implemented by the Government for public pre-primary and primary education and finally, prohibition to demand a contribution to the parents (art 115). However, at the level of the public secondary schooling, exemption school fees apply to girls until fourth form.

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