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Figure 9 : The presence of nursery school<br />

Source: RGB-<strong>CRC</strong> 2015 Survey primary data<br />

The figure above shows that among the respondents, the citizens of Kamonyi district<br />

said there were nursery schools at 100%, while the citizens of Nyabihu district said<br />

that there were nursery schools at 38.3%. In Rwanda, about 29% of the 1.28 million<br />

children aged between three and six were attending a pre-school programme. Preschool<br />

attendance is more common in urban areas (about 44%) than in rural areas<br />

(about 28%) with the chances of receiving such a service increasing almost two-fold<br />

from rural to urban areas 6 .<br />

2.2.4 Access to education facilities<br />

The distances covered to attend school is a good indicator for the accessibility of the<br />

children to school. In this survey, the citizens had to answer if the children covered<br />

less than 2km, between 2km – 5 km and above 5km. The results are shown in the<br />

figure 10 below.<br />

6 Op. cit, p.xiii<br />

24 Rwanda Citizen Report Card Survey 2015

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