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What's happening in 2008:
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What happened in 2007?
The week secured much media coverage when the President Dr. Yayi Boni appeared in schools, taking the advantage to meet teachers from different departments.
Global Action Week was launched by the Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education in Karimama in the North of Benin, where the enrolment rate is the lowest in the country – with only 36% of children, and 27% of girls going to school. The French Vallet Foundation provided learning materials to the children while 830 scholarships were supplied to deserving poor children. During the week, a unit of three classes was launched in Adjarra Adovié and a discussion took place with 1,200 students on the Right to Education, followed by a human chain. Science students from the University of Abomey-Calavi did advocacy and awareness raising work for parents living near the lake, where the girls’ gross enrolment rate is 51%.
More than 1,000 children marched up to the presidential residence with the Education Counsellor of the Head of State carrying messages on education for all, whilst others marched to the Mayor of Boukoubé. The coalition has now collected over 100 testimonies of children’s education rights that are being published in a book.
2008 Report Card PDF
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