Support for OLE Rwanda
OLE Rwanda got a boost this summer when a senior government Minister added his support to the organization’s application for registration as a social benefit (not-for-profit) organization.
The Honorable Theoneste Mutsindashyaka, Minister of state in charge of Primary and Secondary Education in the government of the Republic of Rwanda, wrote to the registering agency to express his support. He said, in part, “OLE Rwanda’s projects are aligned with the country’s Vision 2020 and add value to the achievement of universal basic education in Rwanda.” He noted that OLE Rwanda is cooperating with the Ministry of Education in “two important projects,
- Contextualization and localization of content for basic education,
- Digitization of the content to support and avail teaching and learning materials through the development of a Billion Kids’ National Digital Library.”
The Minister visited the OLE offices in Cambridge, MA this summer and tried out an early version of the Course Development Studio. He noted with interest that the software could be localized for Kinyarwanda, the official language of Rwanda, and said that this would vastly increase its importance for teachers throughout the country.
