École Belge de Kigali

The École Belge de Kigali (EBK, "Belgian School of Kigali") is a Belgian curriculum school in Kigali, Rwanda. The school, from kindergarten to secondary, has children of expatriates and Rwandans. It is a part of the Association des écoles à programme belge à l'étranger (AEBE).

Student body

As of April 2010 students included children of government ministers and of Rwandans who do not send their children abroad to study. As of the same month the son of the Prime Minister of Rwanda and the children of the Minister of Defence went to the school.[1]

Circa 1980 10% of the students were Rwandan and the remainder were foreigners, including, in 1978-1979, five Americans who were children of employees of the U.S. embassy. Admission of Belgian nationals was guaranteed, while admission of other foreign nationalities were not guaranteed.[2]

References
  1. "Rwanda : un boom économique à consonance anglophone" (Archive). Le Soir. 22 April 2010. Retrieved on 2 March 2013. "le centre culturel français en complet abandon depuis 16 ans va être rénové et remis en service, l’école française va redémarrer avec un cycle complet d’études primaires et secondaires et va venir dangereusement concurrencer l’école à programmes belges de Kigali (EBK) qui accueille actuellement, au fondamental et au secondaire, les enfants des expatriés mais aussi les enfants des ministres et cadres Rwandais qui ne les ont pas envoyés étudier à l’étranger (le fils du Premier Ministre, les enfants du Ministre de la Défense, d’autres encore… sont à l’Ecole Belge)."
  2. Post Report: American Embassy, Kigali. U.S. State Department. February 1980. p. 9.

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