Morocco aspires to reach 1 million beneficiaries of literacy campaign per year
Morocco, Education, 6/5/2004

Morocco ambitions to reach an annual one million beneficiaries of the literacy campaign, and school 200,000 children per year, said, here Wednesday, Moroccan Secretary of State in charge of literacy and informal education.

Addressing a meeting of Arab education ministers held part of the regional congress on "education for all: Arab prospective vision," Najima Rhozali noted that the literacy campaign organized in Morocco, dubbed "Massirat Ennour" (march toward light), means to fight adult illiteracy and non-schooling of children.

She added that several governmental sectors and institutions representing the civil society have taken part in this operation.

According to Rhozali, a national strategy for informal education and the fight of illiteracy was drawn up to achieve the objectives set by the national education and training charter. This strategy, she underlined, consists in reinforcing partnerships, mobilizing schools and raising the funds needed for its implementation.

The Arab regional congress, which started Tuesday in Cairo, is organized by the Egyptian Education Ministry in collaboration with the UNESCO and UNICEF.

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