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Thursday 08 September 2011
World Literacy Day aims for school for all
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By Rosslyn Hyams

Today is World Literacy Day, an occasion to underline the challenge set by the United Nations of primary education for all by 2015. A pro-literacy NGO based in San Francisco in the US has been active since 2000, in 10 developing countries in both Africa and Asia.

tags : Culture - Education - Literacy - Literature - United Nations
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