BAMYAN, Afghanistan, Sept. 13 (Xinhua) -- Up to 16,000 people, mostly women, have attended more than 600 literacy centers to learn how to read and write, a local news agency reported Wednesday.
Addressing a meeting to mark the World Literacy Day (WLD) held in Bamyan provincial capital, Bamyan City, Bamyan Governor Mohammad Taher Zaheer said literacy helps people learn how to bring change in a society and called it a key to the social welfare and cultural and economic development, the government-run Bakhtar News Agency quoted the governor as saying.
Deputy to the literacy affairs of the ministry of education, Sardar Mohammad Rahimi, was quoted by the news agency as saying that Afghanistan would reach its goal to eliminate illiteracy and promote education through sustainable development programs until 2030 in Afghanistan, according to the agency.
Meanwhile, deputy to the provincial education director Sharifi told the meeting that up to 16,000 people, 76 percent of them women, attended 621 literacy courses in Bamyan province, to learn reading and writing, the agency said.
