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8:08 CAT | 14 Sep 2021
Cabo Delgado Governor Vaalige Tauabo. [Photo: Conselho Executivo de Cabo Delgado]
The implementation of a project approved last year by the Provincial Executive Council, along with other nationwide literacy programmes, is expected to bring the illiteracy rate in Cabo Delgado province down from its current 53.5% to 39% by the year 2024.
The information was revealed by the provincial governor, Valige Tauabo, when he delivered a speech celebrating International Literacy Day in Mecufi district on September 8, 2021.
Governor Tauabo enumerated the five literacy programmes currently underway in the province, namely, Regular Literacy, covering all districts; Literacy in Mozambican Languages courses being implemented in Mueda, Chiúre and Montepuez; Functional Literacy in Mecúfi, Metuge and Ancuabe; Literacy for the Environment; and PROFASA, the ‘Family Without Illiteracy’ programme, which is offered in some secondary schools.
For the current academic year, 16,939 literacy students were enrolled in Cabo Delgado, of which 10,973 are women. In 2020, 16,767 students enrolled.
Speaking on the occasion, National Director of Human Resources Lina Portugal expressed concern about the increasing number of literacy course dropouts, allegedly on the grounds of engaging in productive activities or exercising informal commerce.
Portugal said that the adult literacy and education programme must be improved in order to provide the literacy student not only with knowledge of arithmetic and reading abilities, but also with skills in different areas, so as to improve income and quality of life, saying, “We must make our educational system more attractive to each social group”.
Source: Conselho Executivo de Cabo Delgado
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