Mid-October date for launching literacy campagin in Iraq

Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) Member of the Parliamentary Education Committee, MP Nisreen Anwar of the Kurdistani Alliance, assured that “The campaign of literacy will start practically in next mid-October,” noting that “All the preparations were completed to launch the campaign.”

Anwar said in a statement to IraqiNews.com “There are five million illiterate persons in Iraq,” confirming that the “Education Committee approved the law of Eradication Illiteracy and it is now in the implementation phase.”

She added that “A center for literacy has been established in each province and district.”

“Also, centers have been opened to receive the applications of people who wish to register for studying in this campaign and we expect to start it effectively in mid-October,” Anwar concluded.