Africa-Press – Angola. About 24 percent of the population over 15 years of age in Angola is still illiterate, revealed, on Friday, in the city of Marrakech, Kingdom of Morocco, the national director of Youth and Adult Education (EJA).
Evaristo Pedro, who was speaking at the VII International Conference on Adult Education (CONFINTEA), which takes place under the motto, “Education for Citizenship: Empowering Adults for Change”, highlighted that this problem of illiteracy affects more than 700 million young people and adults in the world.
In Angola, he said that, despite the high numbers, the country has made progress with the public policy to combat illiteracy and the implementation of Youth and Adult Education.
Evaristo Pedro stressed that this progress in reducing illiteracy rates has a lot to do with the involvement of various social actors in the process, after the program was approved, through Presidential Decree nº257/19, of 12 August.
The official recalled that, with the approval of the Action Plan for the Intensification of Literacy and Education of Youth and Adults, the only constraints relate to the consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic and the global economic crisis.
As for the participation in CONFINTEA, the national director underlined that the country hopes to strengthen cooperation ties with the main international organizations that work in EJA, with emphasis on advice in the field of training of trainers, Curriculum Development for EJA and the strengthening of the Institutional Capacity.
All member countries of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and civil society organizations from around the world participate in the International Conference on Adult Education, where they addressed the issue of literacy and adult education.
The International Conference on Adult Education, according to the note, has been held every 12 to 13 years since the late 1940s, with the first conference being held in 1949 in Elsinore (Denmark), followed by Montreal ( Canada) in 1960, Tokyo (Japan) in 1972, Paris (France) in 1985, Hamburg (Germany) in 1997 and Belém (Brazil) in December 2009.
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