Right2School believes that education can help to improve and transform individuals, giving them opportunities to change their communities. This program provides secondary school scholarships to children in Rwanda who cannot afford to go to school.

 

The need for the Right2School program in Rwanda, by numbers:

• 860,000: the number of orphans, ages 0–17 years-old
  (Source: Unicef)


• 30,000: the number of child-headed households
  (Source: Unicef)


• 10%: the percentage of children ages 13 - 18 years-old enrolled in secondary school
  (Source: Economic Development & Poverty Reduction Strategy 2008-2012, Rwanda Gov't)


• $350: the average cost of one year of secondary school fees


• $370: the average annual income
  (Source: USAID Rwanda)
  

• 90%: the percentage of the population whose occupation is subsistence farming


• 77%: the percentage of the population that falls below the international poverty line
  (Source: Unicef)


• 50%: the percentage of unemployed people who live in the village of Akindege
  (Source: Akindege village government)

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