Mozambique: Adventist Church Joins Government in Battle Against Illiteracy

Maputo — Under a new literacy education program, the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Mozambique has partnered with the government to address the country's abysmal illiteracy rates.

An agreement signed last month by the church's Education director, Miguel Simoque, and Maria da Conceicao Bila, secretary for Mozambique's Ministry of Education, is an attempt to boost the nation's estimated 47 percent literacy rate, Adventist Press Service reported

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