Senegal Takes Tech Approach to Women's Education

Publisher:
Voice of America
Publication Date:
2 October 2014
Tags:
Senegal, Aid and Assistance, Education, Innovation, Women and Gender

More and more Africans, these days, are communicating via text, social media and email. In Senegal, literacy experts are using new technologies to motivate and teach women to read. The U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, UNESCO, rolled out the program there in 2012 but is now expanding it to as many as six other African countries. Christin Roby reports from the Pikine suburb of Dakar.

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