Members of the Rwanda School Sport Federation (FRSS) and Rwanda Association of Sports Journalists took part in the course intended to educate and encourage the trainees about the Olympic values.

The course was conducted by Tharcisse Harerimana on behalf of Olympic Solidarity and it focused on the three Olympic values of friendship, respect and excellence, as well as the four Paralympic values of determination, inspiration, courage and equality.

"The values underpin the Games as a set of universal principles, but they can be applied to education and our lives as well as to sport itself," said Harerimana during an event to close the course.

Rwanda have never won a medal at the Olympic Games and have only secured one at the five Paralympic Games in which they have been present.

Jean de Dieu Nkundabera secured his country's solitary medal at the 2004 Athens Paralympics, in the men’s 800 metres T46.

Everybody that participated in the event were awarded certificates at the end of the five-day programme.

"We have acquired wisdom about the Olympic Values that we did not know," said Emile Ruberwa after attending the event on behalf of the FRSS.

"We also learned a lot and now we need to start sensitising the youth about these values."

RNOSC executive director Jean de Dieu Mukundiyukuri said: "RNOSC will continue to work hard within the limits of its ability and resources to uplift the ideals of the Olympic Movement, especially through such training."