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Literacy Program for Nepal’s Marginalized People
By KTM Metro Reporter in Kathmandu
March 31, 2010: the UN News Center has reported that the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has a project to enhance literacy and empower marginalized people in the rural areas of Nepal. The project is for benefiting 1,000 illiterate girls and women and the members of other disadvantaged groups. It is also for developing training methods for the Dhanusa and Kapilbastu districts of southeast and south Nepal, where adult literacy rate is just 48 per cent far below the national average of 84 per cent.
Japan is funding this project for implementing “innovative, mother tongue-based” methods, will “better deliver basic literacy and post-literacy programs in rural communities,” according to Axel Plathe, UNESCO’s Representative to Nepal.
Nepal faces large disparities in literacy rates between urban and rural areas, as well as between the rich and poor zones. Literacy rate for those with higher incomes averages 72 per cent, while among the poorest is only 23 per cent whereas it is as low as 4 to 10 per cent among the disadvantaged people in rural areas.
