According to the Administrative Minister of the Presidency, José Ramón Peralta, there are only 176,000 illiterate people in the country and of these 110,000 have already begun learning how to read and write.
Peralta says this is down from around 852,000 when the government began the war on illiteracy at the start of the first Medina administration in 2012.
He said the country goal is to be declared a country free of illiteracy by the United Nations Organization for Education, Science and Culture (UNESCO). This would be a first for the Dominican Republic.
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El Nacional
23 August 2017
