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| Paul Kagame (Rwanda President) |
President Paul Kagame of Rwanda has said that: ''I would rather argue, that we need to mobilize the right mindsets, rather than more funding. Africa has everything it needs, in real terms, but Africans remain mentally married to the idea that nothing can get moving without external finance. We are even begging for things we already have. That is absolutely a failure of mindset.''
These are some of the areas Rwanda has improved greatly, which most of us might not know.
1) Rwanda is the first country in the world to use 'Drone Technology' in it's Healthcare structure, to transfer blood and medicine to hospitals and health facilities nationwide.
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| Drones For Medical Supplies |
2) In Rwanda, healthcare is free. Rwanda has also provided universal eye care for its citizens. The public schools are so advanced and effective, that private schools had to close in mass numbers due to low patronage of students.
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| Medical Healthcare |
3) Rwanda made history on Friday night February 27, 2019, the country launched the first ever Satellite in its skies to connect schools with internet across its remote parts of the country. The country (Rwanda) was once ranked as 150 in doing business in the world. Today, it is ranked 29th in the world, and 2nd in whole of Africa.
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| Rwanda Satellite Being Launched |
4) Rwanda has the youngest group of Ministers in Africa. In Rwanda, there's a 50-50 gender equal in it's 26 Cabinet Ministers, which encompasses 13 men and 13 women respectively.
The country's youngest Minister is aged 31 years. The average age of Minister is 47.5 years, 17 of the Ministers are below age 50 years, only 1 of it Minister is over 60 years of age.
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| Rwanda's Female Ministers |
5) Rwanda Government boosting national education toward goal of knowledge-based economy: 10% increase in primary and secondary teachers salaries starting in the month of March 2019, student loan repayments waived for school teachers who teach 3 years after graduation in primary, 5 years in secondary.
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| Teacher & Students |
6) Rwanda is set to open it's first smartphone factory, making it the first in Africa to locally manufacture phones that will meet the demand of the African market. The announcement was made by Paula Ingabire, Rwanda's Minister for Information and Communications Technology.
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Paula Ingabire (Minister For Information And Communications Technology)
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7) Rwanda is making significant progress on the 10,000 seater multi-sport arena in Kigali. Construction is expected to be completed by June 2019.
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| 10,000 Seater Sports Arena In Kigali |
8) Kigali, Rwanda's capital, is the cleanest city in Africa. Why? The country's 2008 ban on non-biodegradable plastic and the mandatory Saturday monthly clean up practice called Umuganda, loosely translated as ''coming together to achieve a common purpose''.
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| Some Parts Of Rwanda's Capital City Kigali |
9) Rwanda launches the first coding academy that will produce a pool of experts in the field of software engineering in order to address, in a more sustainable manner, the current shortages of software developers on local and regional market.
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| Improved Academy System |
The Rwanda government is truly trying to take the lead by setting the pace and showing the rest of African leaders that truly African countries can do it on it's own and become the best among others in the world. Other African leaders/president should kindly take caution and do the same just as Rwanda is doing.
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