6612: Teaching to read and write along the frontier with Haiti (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: Yacine Khelladi <yacine@yacine.net>


> DR1 Daily News -- Thursday, 4 January 2001
> 
> 8. Teaching to read and write along the frontier with Haiti
> The Ministry of Education announced a program that seeks to teach to
> read and write 80% of the illiterate inhabitants in frontier
> provinces. The program will be reaching out to 95,000 inhabitants at a
> cost of RD$54 million. Provinces included in the program are Elías
> Piña, Jimaní, Bahoruco, Independencia, Santiago Rodríguez, Monte
> Cristi, Dajabón and Pedernales. Statistics show that 24% of the adult
> population in the frontier, the poorest region in the DR, can not read
> or write. The national illiteracy rate is 17%.
>