ALECSO to implement illiteracy eradication projects in Yemen
The Source: sana'a/ hadhramaut.info/sabanews.net - 11/06/2010
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The Arab League Educational, Cultural and Scientific Organisation (ALECSO) will implement educational projects in the domain of illiteracy eradication and elders learning in Yemen at a total cost of $300,000. Director General of the National Committee for Education, Culture and Sciences Ahmed al-Ma'amari stated to Saba that implementation of these projects will start following the signing of the relevant agreement in July in Sana'a which will include field of building capacities of the teaching staff and employees in the area of illiteracy eradication and elders learning as well as the concerned civil society organizations.According to official statistics, the number of illiterate people in Yemen exceeds 4 million, mostly women, in spite of the government efforts to lessen the expansion of this phenomenon.
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