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Illiteracy
Nov 9 2009, Mohammed Taha

A new program was launched recently by the Moroccan government to build 1246 schools especially in those ‘urban non-urban’ places to facilitate access to schooling in the rural areas.

This program-that is worth MAD 12.76 bullion- is aimed to...

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Henry Lee Burton talks with a reporter while sitting in his truck before going to work in New Orleans, Friday, Aug. 22, 2008. Burton often brings his adult literacy course work to his job. Overshadowed by bureaucratic failures and slow-moving rebuilding..