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Adult illiteracy rate drops by 50 pct in Mozambique since 1975

Xinhua, June 18, 2015 Adjust font size:

The Mozambican government announced on Wednesday in Maputo that the country's adult illiteracy rate dropped by nearly 50 percent since 1975.

The Deputy Minister of Education and Human Development, Armingo Ngunga, touted the drop as "an important moment of the country's history."

"Because it was 40 years ago when we started this march, the fight against illiteracy. In 1975, illiteracy rate was at 95 percent, 40 years later we have reduced to nearly half of that, we are currently at 43 percent, therefore the struggle continues," said Ngunga.

The deputy minister said that he hopes the country would not take additional 40 years to eradicate illiteracy and despite the progress, the government is not satisfied with the results.

The Education Ministry and different stakeholders were evaluating the results of the strategy for adults' education for the edition 2010-2015.

Mozambique is yet far from achieving its goal to educate 5 million adults in five years and fund raising is one of the barriers, according to the government. Endi