The Ministry of Education said that 192,000 of 225,000 persons enrolled in the learn to read and write programs of the government are now literate. The Programa de Alfabetización y Educación Básica implemented by the Ministry with the cooperation of the Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional has the support of 580 institutions, including schools, churches, clubs, universities, farming associations, women’s groups and private companies. For instance, Pisano Timberland free zone employees have actively reached out to teach others to read and write. The Ministry expects to considerably reduce the nation’s illiteracy rate, today at 17%, with the program. Expect to reduce the 17% illiteracy rate. The program is reaching out to some of the poorest in the DR, and jail inmates and residents in bateyes, the communities where sugar cane cutters live, have benefited.
