Africa-Press – Angola. A literacy program that is expected to benefit 620 people was launched this Saturday by the Angolan Women’s Organization in Moxico, with a view to reducing the illiteracy rate in the region.
According to the organization’s first provincial secretary in Moxico, Fátima Zangata, who spoke during the opening of the first classroom in the municipality of Léua, with more than 30 enrolled, the program aims to contribute to the empowerment of the female fringe and train them to society’s challenges.
It requested financial support from other organizations to pay the 30 literacy teachers who carry out this exercise, as well as the construction of its own facilities, for the successful implementation of the program.
He reported that 1,400 people would be literate in 2023, as part of the implementation of this program.
For his part, the first provincial secretary of the MPLA of Moxico, Ernesto Muangala, encouraged the implementation of the project, emphasizing that the literacy process “is a powerful instrument (…) that contributes to people’s social emancipation.
The illiteracy rate in the province, according to the official, is 52.4%, in a region inhabited by around one million inhabitants, according to INE projections for 2014.
In the current academic year, 14 thousand literacy students were enrolled across the province.
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