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Sure eritrea has its independence and so called "dignity", but it is still a very shitty country. horrible domestic issues. aids, poverty, low education rates. They always rank similarly to somalia, haiti, and congo when it comes to poverty and gdp. Eritrea definitely has a rich history, but it is in no way a glorious nation in modern times. How can you be proud of having your independence if you're not even create a decent country.

Education is enshrined in the Eritrean national charter not only as a basic human right but also as a cornerstone for economic emancipation. Education is given particular focus for its role in developing human resources as well as improving the public health and general living standard.

To this end the Eritrean government has ever since the dawn of independence made extensive large and small scale investments in this sector that have effected ground breaking changes in the overall educational system in the country.

In different occasions and policy statements, the Government of Eritrea has underlined that the country's determinant resources are its human resources and that in addition to being a basic right, education is the primary tool to fight poverty, illness, backwardness and ignorance. The government has also pledged to strive relentlessly so as to enable nationals explore their potentials and develop their skills for the maximum benefit possible. Due emphasis is also given to equalizing the disparity in access to education among different sections of the society.

Although the Eritrean government's commitment to the education sector emanates from the core principle that it is the right of every citizen, Eritrea is also strives to accomplish international pledges and agreements it singed such as the Education For All, Millennium Development Goals, UN Literacy Decade, Convention On the Rights of the Child, Poverty Reduction ….etc.

1. Ensuring Equitable Access to Education:

As a result of the continued efforts exerted in the past 19 years, commendable and encouraging results have been registered in expanding educational opportunities and ensuring equity of access to education. Accordingly, there has been a remarkable rise in the number of schools in different parts of the country, number of schools providing education in mother tongue, number of both students and teachers, and the number of female students as well as the number of higher learning institutions.

Furthermore, the distribution of support system institutions such as libraries and science laboratories, as well as the provision of educational facilities and resources in different corners of the country has shown considerable progress.

Successful results have also been achieved in providing access to education to those who have never had the opportunity to go to school for mental, physical and social constraints and barriers.

In 2002 the Eritrean government drafted a concept paper aimed at an extensive change in the existing educational system. The primary objective of the paper was to create a qualitative and relevant educational system that complements national development plans by cultivating skilled and professional human resources. Based on this paper, the government made an investment of more than 240 million USD and set up the Education Sector Development (ESDP). The ESDP encompasses four important pillars; illiteracy eradication, promoting secondary education, technical and vocational training as well as developing institutional capacity.

Starting from 2005, the Ministry of Education has introduced ICT laboratories in most of the secondary and junior level schools in the country. Relevant ICT training has also been provided to teachers and school directors to further promote IT and computer literacy among students. Schools and students in remote parts of the country have not been left out either: computer labs have been installed in schools in remote areas with the help of solar powered energy.

Eritrea employs an exemplary approach to ensure the provision of health services to its citizens. Since independence the Ministry of Health played a great role in building and rehabilitating hospitals, developing its human resource, controlling vaccine-preventable diseases and the spread of HIV and, improved its emergency services. Like the rest of the country’s sectors, this was in ruins during the colonization. At the time of liberation in 1991, the Government of the State of Eritrea inherited a health care system, totally inadequate in terms of physical facilities, trained human resource as well as an inequitable distribution of resources, availability of drugs and other medical supplies. In the past fifteen years (1991–2007), the Government and the people of Eritrea worked hard to reverse the health and health services situation that was prevailing at the time of liberation. Despite the country’s engagement in active war with Ethiopia from 1998 to 2000 and during only relative peace (no peace-no war situation) since then, many of Eritrea’s achievements in the health sector were exemplary even at the global level.

Sure eritrea has its independence and so called "dignity", but it is still a very shitty country. horrible domestic issues. aids, poverty, low education rates. They always rank similarly to somalia, haiti, and congo when it comes to poverty and gdp. Eritrea definitely has a rich history, but it is in no way a glorious nation in modern times. How can you be proud of having your independence if you're not even create a decent country.