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Literacy
enables women to:
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help
to improve their family's health and diet,
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increase
their production and earnings, hence raise their children's and
family's standard of living,
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gain
access to learning appropriate technologies, to the management of
co-operatives and to the use of loan facilities
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improve
their own social and cultural status,
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discharge
their responsibilities more effectively, particularly the growing
number of women who now become heads of families.
If
women and girls are to participate in literacy programmes it will be
necessary to:
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combat
social and cultural prejudice with regard to the education of women,
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explain
the importance of educating women, both to women themselves and to
the community as a whole, and gain the community support for it,
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give
women the free time required,
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give
them less hard working conditions,
Appropriate
functional literacy programmes, provide women with training that will help
them to increase their incomes and meet their basic needs, and enable them
to participate actively and fully in the cultural life of the community.
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INTERNATIONAL