CRC/C/HND/CO/3 page 16 65. The Committee recommends that the State party take all possible action, including providing additional and better managed resources, to reduce poverty and ensure that the entire country has access to basic goods, education, health and other services, including clean drinking water, especially the remote and rural areas. The Committee also recommends that in poverty-reduction strategies special attention be paid to children’s rights. 7. Education, leisure and cultural activities (arts. 28, 29 and 31 of the Convention) 66. The Committee notes that Honduras has proclaimed 2007 a “Year of Education” and welcomes the adoption of a Basic National Curriculum, as well as other educational programmes and plans. However, it is still concerned about the following: (a) Low quality of education in the country; (b) Considerable difference between urban areas and rural and remote areas with respect to quality and accessibility of education, number of inscriptions, level of infrastructure and dropout rates; (c) Low number of annual days of school and effective school hours in comparison with international standards; (d) Low number of teachers and their lack of training; (e) Lack of preschool education, especially in rural areas; (f) High rate of illiteracy in the country. 67. The Committee recommends that the State party, taking into account the Committee’s general comment No. 1 on the aims of education (2001): (a) Increase its efforts to improve school conditions in remote and rural areas and eliminate discrepancies in access to education between urban and rural areas; (b) Emphasize the quality of education, including vocational education and training, and in the national budget devote more and better-targeted resources to education; (c) Strengthen measures aimed at increasing enrolment and completion rates, as well as reducing dropout rates; (d) Increase educational opportunities for indigenous children, inter alia by continuing to provide bilingual education, where necessary; (e) Increase the number of days of school and effective school hours for all children;