Maintaining the ban of the ownerships of mobile phones in secondary school students
The advocacy campaign was triggered by the issing of a controversial press statement by the Hon. Minister in charge of Primary and Secondary Education on 15 August 2015 on the ownership of cell phones by students while at school.
The Minister's statement raised more ambiguity than it aimed to clarify as regards the Government's official position on whether the use and ownership of cell phones should be legalized in schools. In order to demand clarify, FIYO after consultations with different civil society organizations issued a declaration demanding the following from the Hon.State Minister of Education,
The declaration was officially published during a press conference and it dominated headlines in different media outlets such as; igihe.com, Radio Rwanda, Rwanda television, makuruki.com,BBC, The East African etc.
Several meetings took place between FIYO and MINEDUC to clarify the issue. A consensus was reached that the legalization of use of cell phones by students while at school will require national level consultations and that FIYO will be part of the process.