change language
you are in: home - friendsh...the poor - the youngest - bravo! programme - news fro...d rwanda newslettercontact uslink

Support the Community

  

News from BRAVO!: programme of birth registration for children in Ivory Coast and Rwanda


 
printable version

The BRAVO! programme in Ivory Coast and Rwanda
(January 2009)
 

The BRAVO! programme of the Community of Sant'Egidio is in progress in many countries, in Africa in particular. Through birth registration it delivers from anonymity children and boys, to offer them a decent future, a work, a full social insertion.


IVORY COAST

In Ivory Coast only 55 percent of the population is registered.
Within three months from the birth, only the revenue stamp is due for registration, it costs 500 CFA  Francs (equivalent to about 75 Eurocents). After this time, a judgment of the tribunal is necessary to get registered, certifying the existence in life of a person. That requires much longer time and a more expensive procedure. The judgment of the tribunal actually costs 2,500 CFA Francs (equivalent to 3.5 €), to be added to the cost for the revenue stamp.

Many parents do not know the importance of birth registration and only when the children grew they discover that the delay in the registration results in much higher costs and in a more complex procedure. Furthermore, at the moment of school application, they are asked for the certificate of birth of the child, but since many don't have it, a delay in the limits of the delivery is often tolerated. One can wait until the conclusion of the last class of the scholastic cycle, when it must absolutely be delivered otherwise it is not possible to finish the year and the studies.

This is what happened to the mother of E.H. that is illiterate. She believed that the papers were regular, since her son had been attending school for years. In the imminence of the final examination of the primary school however, the teachers said to E. H. that he could not apply for the test to pass to the high school, since he had not delivered the certificate of birth. As soon as the people of the Community of Sant'Egidio were informed, they tried to register E. H. in time for the exam, but the times of the procedure were too long, and E. H. lost one year. This year however he will be able to apply to the high school, because together to a 12-years-old child, two of eight and three of less than one year, he is the last registered of 2008 within the BRAVO! programme in Ivory Coast.


RWANDA

The Rwanda is modifying the procedure of birth registration. Computer recording of all of the data is being done, and that will allow, among other, to supply to every citizen an electronic identity card.

Previously enforced prescriptions that required a tax for the late record of the births, have been withdrawn. For every month of delay 500 Rwandese Francs were required (equivalent to 80 Eurocents).

In this transitory phase, the government is favoring the personal record of the whole population resident in Rwanda and has for this reason also allowed free late enrolment.

The Community of Sant'Egidio, in the framework of the BRAVO! programme, brought information to the families, for helping the insertion of as many as possible minors in the population records, and helped the orphan children in fulfilling the procedures. This way 96 children finally obtained a legal identity.

Sostieni Bravo! con una donazione

PHOTO

1518 visits

1507 visits

1576 visits

1408 visits

1702 visits
all the related media

RELATED NEWS
June 20 2017
ROME, ITALY

Central African Republic: an agreement for immediate cease-fire and a road map to peace was signed at Sant'Egidio

IT | EN | ES | DE | FR | PT | CA | NL | RU | HU
June 3 2017
ROME, ITALY

South Sudan humanitarian crisis in the meeting between Sant'Egidio and an international delegation of special envoys

IT | EN
April 25 2017
BERLIN, GERMANY

Youth, Africa and interreligious dialogue at the centre of the meeting between Andrea Riccardi and Angela Merkel

IT | EN | ES | DE | FR | PT
March 20 2017
ROME, ITALY

Congress of the representatives of the Communities of Sant'Egidio of Africa and Latin America took place in Rome

IT | EN | ES | DE | FR | PT | CA | NL
February 3 2017
GOMA, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO

Letter from Goma, Congo: We are the spokesperson of poor and neglected elderly of the outskirts

IT | EN | ES | DE | FR
October 13 2016
BANGUI, CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC

A delegation of the Community of Sant'Egidio meets the President of the Central African Republic Touadéra


Among the discussed topics: DREAM Programme, health and work for peace
IT | EN | ES | DE | FR | PT | RU | HU
all related news

ASSOCIATED PRESS
February 24 2018
Avvenire
A spasso per Milano aiutando l'Africa
January 24 2018
Avvenire
Sviluppo. Alfano: «La Cooperazione è tornata al centro dell'agenda politica»
January 19 2018
Famiglia Cristiana
Europa e Africa, un destino comune
January 8 2018
OnuItalia
Alfano chiude missione in Africa al centro ‘Dream’ di Conakry (sant’Egidio)
December 30 2017
Notizie Italia News
La politica estera italiana nell'ultima legislatura. Un breve bilancio
all press-related