Mrs Stella Nwagu, an aide to Gov Dave Umahi of Ebonyi state has said the state government is poised to sustain its campaign to eradicate illiteracy in the state.
Nwagu, who is the Special Assistant to the Governor on Mass Literacy, Adult and Non Formal Education, said this in Abakaliki, Wednesday.
She said that the state government was determined to provide inclusive education and eradicate illiteracy through its mass literacy, adult and non-formal education programme.
She said that at least 50 mass literacy facilitators from different adult education centres in the state were recently trained to enhance their teaching skills to achieve the vision of the programme.
Nwagu said: “Enhancing their capacity and equipping the facilitators with modern methodology for teaching will ensure better service delivery.
“The state mass literacy programme is designed to provide opportunity for out-of-school youths, women and men, who were not privileged to acquire conventional basic education.”
She reaffirmed government’s determination to eradicate illiteracy in the state by ensuring that school age children and other illiterate population were given access to education.
Nwagu said that the two-day workshop, which brought stakeholders in the education sector together, was facilitated by the Education Today for Sustainable Development Initiative, a non-governmental organisation, with funding from the United Nations and European Union.
“A society with high literacy rate, where its citizens have more access to education and academically empowered, will develop and progress more rapidly”.
Nwagu, who said that there was no age limit to acquiring education, appealed to illiterate parents and school drop out to take advantage of the mass literacy programme to equip themselves, academically. (NAN)
