Africa-Press – Angola. A total of 250 elderly women are being literate, on the island of Luanda, within the scope of the project “Alfabetizar will teach the elderly to read and write”.
The project has been implemented for over a year on the island of Luanda, after visiting other areas of the country’s capital, having also benefited children.
According to the director for the social area of the project, Xavier Narciso, the Ministry of Education has made ten classrooms available, in schools 1,205 and 1,235. “What most caught our attention is the fact that the largest number of citizens with literacy problems are female. Today, 250 attend classes, with a workload of two hours, every day of the week”.
The project is financed by Arte e Cultura and has the support of Focus Education Angola, which provides the teaching material kits, as well as the Ministry of Education, which trains literacy teachers.
Xavier Narciso said that the closing of the first module will take place on the 30th of this month, with the delivery of certificates, to be issued by the direction of the Department of Education of the municipality of Ingombota.
He assured that, next year, a literacy program called “Alfabetizar a Ilha” will be launched, to cover more people of different ages.
He added that the project will start with the registration of candidates interested in literacy classes. The project, she said, aims to eradicate illiteracy on the island, for a better social, cultural, academic and economic insertion.
The director for the social area of the project said that it has the support of the Mitrel Group, with which they built an arts school, which receives more than 400 children daily.
He informed that, recently, they had promoted a campaign to register births and issue identity cards, with the support of the Ministry of Justice and Human Rights, which covered more than 150 people.
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