Population Progressively Overcomes Illiteracy
455 Ethiopians at the age between 15 and 75 learn to read and write at the "Hizbawi-Serawit School of Addis Ababa at present. Some 5.5 million people wanted to participate in the 2nd alphabetization phase, which began in the end of 1979. Lessons a...
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Vocational Training for Yemeni Boys
PDR of Yemen: FDJ friendship brigades in al-Kod
While school buildings of the vocational training centre of al-Kod in the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen are still under construction, the first 40 boys took up their apprenticeship as fitter...
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Ethiopia Defeats Ignorance — Geography Lesson
In 1974, the number of Ethiopian students who could not read or write was 93 per cent. But the government's program to educate them using television and radio has been successful. The number of currently studying young and adult students are incre...
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Ethiopia: Lessons in Polytechnics
Imparting craftmen's abilities to pupils - like sewing, treating wood and also housekeeping - are included in the teaching programme of the 12th-form secondary school at Awasa, capital of the Ethiopian administrative region of Sidamo.
Until 1990, ...
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Measures Taken to Overcome Illiteracy
Ethiopia has now started training adults to read and write, in order to overcome illiteracy. These Ethiopian women are studying in the alphabetization class in Addis Ababa, and around 20,000 voluntary teachers all over the country conduct these cl...
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Ethiopia: Struggle Against Illiteracy
These children from the Kebele 23/10, one of the almost 300 residential districts in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa, wait for the beginning of the lesson. About 1,500 girls and boys attend this school which is a tin hut for the time being. Less...
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