PUL-E-KHOMRI (SW): Qader Jamshedi, Head of Literacy at Department of Educationin Baghlan, said that more than 10,000 and 150 students have been graduated during the current year who could now read and write.
Most of the graduates range between 50 years of age.
Jamshedi, told SalamWatandar, that among those graduated this year, 2509 have been women and more than 171 teachers have been busy teaching in seven districts of the province.
It is said that 59 teachers at the literacy centers are women.
He added that the goal of the department is to provide those who are above 15 with literacy programs because it is the youth who need most to be educated in the country.
Kheyal Mohammad who is 48 years old and Ahmad who is 35, have been graduated from literacy centers.
In an interview with SalamWatandar, they said that they could now read and write and could solve their basic problems in their lives.
They believed that the only reason behind the youth taking guns and fighting against the government emanates from lack of education and lack of literacy because an illiterate person can’t differentiate between good and bad.
According to the officials at the literacy centers in Baghlan, 3 million and 900,000 citizens have been covered by the literacy programs in the past 13 years out of which 60 percent are women.
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