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Restrictions have been put in place as schools in Rwanda gradually reopen starting Monday, but social distancing will likely prove difficult.
Students must wear masks and follow strict hygiene rules: their temperature is taken and their hands washed before they are allowed in.
The authorities have ordered a maximum of 23 children per class, but this is quite impossible in many affordable public schools that tend to have large numbers.
At the Remera Catholic primary school in Kigali, at least 46 students were in a classroom today.
“Due to the large number of students, we now have two per desk,” the school’s director, Odette Mujawamriya, tells the BBC.
Esperance Mukagasana from Rusizi, in the west of the country, used to cross the border with Bukavu in the Democratic Republic of the Congo to do odd jobs. Covid-19 has affected his life and the reopening of schools is not good news.
“The border has been closed since March, now I can’t send my children to school because I couldn’t cross to work,” he says.
Many homes and private schools were financially affected by the pandemic.
A director of a private school in Kigali, Vianney Nzabamwita, says they discuss an easy payment plan with parents who cannot afford the fees, “because we have all suffered,” he tells the BBC.
Coronavirus cases and tests have been markedly reduced in Rwanda, 5,146 cases have been reported since March and only 190 are now active cases according to the Health Ministry.
Source: BBC
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