HN Issue 12: The Attendance Award

KAMONYI, RWANDA

Access to education is not always a given in the developing world, but part of the long-term goal in each FH partner community is accessible education. Child sponsors, parents, teachers and the children themselves all play a part in making these promising changes.

At the beginning of the partnership only a quarter of the kids regularly attended school. There were many reasons for such low enrollment: kids would often be sick, parents couldn’t afford the school fees, there weren’t enough teachers or classrooms, and parents regularly needed the kids to work for extra money. One by one, these issues are being addressed.

At first, progress was hard to see, but we’re excited to report that 90 per cent of children now have a 100 per cent attendance record!