parents support school supplies, school uniforms, exam fees, health insurance, and transport as well as lunch. Beside the Maths and French textbooks made available free of charge in schools, but which are still in short supply, parents have to buy other, geography, natural science textbooks, etc. Gender Regarding gender, the 2007-2008 school yearbook revealed parity indices girls / boys as follows: 1 preschool; 0.92 Primary; 0.90 to college, 0.48 in high school; 1.20 in technical and vocational education (due to the preponderance of girls in relatively les valued courses such as child care, secretarial, beauty care, household arts, etc.). In 2011-2012, these indexes were respectively at 0.97 in preschool, 1.06 in primary; 0.97 in college and 0.59 in high school (the data are not available for technical and vocational education, but we can consider that the girls supremacy continues). Table 34: Trend of parity indices girls / boys based on levels of education between 2008 and 2012 Year Preschool 2007- 2008 1.00 2011 - 2012 0.97 Source: School Directory 2011-2012 CEG (junior secondary) 0.92 1.06 High school TVE 0.90 0.97 1.20 na This shows that the representation of women is increasing in all cycles and that parity is nearly full for preschool, primary and secondary school. These improvements are due to the efforts of the government, with the support of partners such as UNICEF, to develop and implement a national girls' education strategy, while promoting in the field, the model of a "child-friendly school, girl- friendly school" that provides an incentive framework for access, retention and success of all children, with special access to the girls. 7-Leisure, recreation and cultural activities 7 .1. Context Congo can be proud of its considerable successes in terms of culture and sport. For example, in literature, the high number of dead or living writers who gained international fame include Jean Malonga, Alain Mabanckou (Goncourt Prize 2004) , as well as Henri Lopes, Tchicaya U Tam'si, Jean-Baptiste Taty-Loutard, Emmanuel B. Dongala and Sony Labou Tansi, to name only the most famous. In plastic arts, the reputation and talent of the School of Poto-Poto is well known and Gotene is one of its greatest representatives. The Congolese music for its part, gave to Africa and to the artists world, artists such as Jean-Serge Essous, Michel Boyibanda, Pamelo Mounka, Pembe Sheiro, Rapha Boundzeki or Franklin Boukaka, without naming the Catholic choir Piroguiers. In sports, without going back to the exploits of Henry Elende high jumper in the sixties, it will suffice to recall the victory of the junior footballers during the CEMAC Cup in 2007 and 2010, while the cadets won the gold medal during the Francophone Games in 2009 and reached the quarterfinals of the World Cup in 2011. The country is also illustrated in handball 97