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Save the Children in partnership with Umuhuza (a local NGO) is implementing the First Steps Program in the Districts of Ngororero and Gasabo in Rwanda. The program targeting parents with children aged 0-3 years aims to determine the most feasible and cost-effective approach to delivering parenting education for the Rwanda context and as well identify effective ways of achieving improvements in parenting practices, child development indicators, and emergent literacy promotion.

Mfitumukiza, 11, dropped out of school for two years and returned as an older child to primary two. He is a first born and lives with his mother and a little brother. “My results are admirable. I am either the 6^th or 8^th place in the class,” he says.

Rwanda ranked the biggest mover of change for improving children’s lives in the region and the second-biggest in the world.

Twenty-five years after the Genocide against the Tutsi, Rwanda has made a great improvement in children lives. Rwanda’s score rose 241 points, from 503 to 744 since 2000 in Save the Children’s “End of Childhood” index which ranks countries according to how well they create a protective environment for children.