Learning to be free (photo: Abdel-Wahab El-Sehiti); women are the focus of literacy campaigns; getting students into literacy classes is one thing -- keeping them there another; contemplating the challenges of adult education
(photos: Mohamed Wassim)
According to UNESCO:
- In the world today there are about one billion non-literate adults (26 per cent of the world's adult population)- Women make up two-thirds of all non-literates
- 98 per cent of all non-literates live in developing countries
- Africa as a continent has a literacy rate of less than 60 per cent.