NCW has placed the eradicating of
illiteracy at the top of its agenda, due to its vital influence on women’s
empowerment. In addition to the Government efforts and its own efforts in
the area of illiteracy eradication, NCW, in cooperation with the Social
Research Studies of the American University in Cairo has initiated a pilot
project that used a new approach to this problem.
It consisted of setting up a database comprising the numbers and the names
of the illiterate persons, including women, covering around 350.000
families, in the governorate of Fayyoum. This database provides detailed
information on the gender, the age groups, the enrollment rates in literacy
classes, and dropout rates at the levels of villages and hamlets. It also
includes details of the number of graduates who do not work in order to
recruit or involve them as service providers in the literacy classes.
The experimental project was also applied in the governorate of Qalyoubiya.
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