4.9m adults still illiterate â€" FAL
Feb 06, 2005
ABOUT 4.9 million adults are still illiterate, Imelda Kyaringabira, a senior literacy officer at the Ministry of Gender, Labour and Social Development has said.
By Felix Oketcho
ABOUT 4.9 million adults are still illiterate, Imelda Kyaringabira, a senior literacy officer at the Ministry of Gender, Labour and Social Development has said.
She said there are other multitudes of people with insufficient exposure to formal education and fundamental difficulties in reading, writing and numerics skills.
She said regionally, more than 40% of the adults in northern Uganda are illiterate, followed by eastern with 32%, western 29% and central 18%.
“The high adult illiteracy rate has a direct bearing on peoples productivity and their capacity to benefit from opportunities provided by the different development programmes like modernisation of agriculture since it is the back borne of the economy,†Kyaringabira said.
“Since 1992, the programme has enrolled 1.142 million adults and 1.09 are women. In 2003/4 the numbers increased progressively,†Kyaringabira said while presenting a paper on impact of non- formal reading and writing on Functional Adult Literacy (FAL) at reading conference at Pope Paul memorial centre in Rubaga.
The survey report of 2002/3 acknowledged that FAL programme contributed to the reduction in the illiteracy rate by 6% within two years from 37% in 1999/2000 to 31% in 2002/3.
ABOUT 4.9 million adults are still illiterate, Imelda Kyaringabira, a senior literacy officer at the Ministry of Gender, Labour and Social Development has said.
She said there are other multitudes of people with insufficient exposure to formal education and fundamental difficulties in reading, writing and numerics skills.
She said regionally, more than 40% of the adults in northern Uganda are illiterate, followed by eastern with 32%, western 29% and central 18%.
“The high adult illiteracy rate has a direct bearing on peoples productivity and their capacity to benefit from opportunities provided by the different development programmes like modernisation of agriculture since it is the back borne of the economy,†Kyaringabira said.
“Since 1992, the programme has enrolled 1.142 million adults and 1.09 are women. In 2003/4 the numbers increased progressively,†Kyaringabira said while presenting a paper on impact of non- formal reading and writing on Functional Adult Literacy (FAL) at reading conference at Pope Paul memorial centre in Rubaga.
The survey report of 2002/3 acknowledged that FAL programme contributed to the reduction in the illiteracy rate by 6% within two years from 37% in 1999/2000 to 31% in 2002/3.