20% of the citizens of Kirkuk do not know how to read and write

20% of the citizens of Kirkuk do not know how to read and write


 Kirkuk / Marwan al-Ani

Confirmed the literacy department in Kirkuk, said that the number of citizens who are not finding reading and writing make up about 20% of the total province, it showed statistics revealed that most of the displaced in Kirkuk are illiterate segments.
He said the department director Abdul Ahmed said , "Kirkuk province has about 100 literacy centers which play a significant role in the education of those who suffer from illiteracy , " stressing that "these centers is witnessing a continuous increasing turnout."
He explained Ahmed, said , "according to Statistics reported by the department, the illiteracy rate in the province is estimated at 20% and nearly 80% of displaced people in Kirkuk are illiterate."
The number of displaced people in Kirkuk , more than 600 thousand displaced people. It was housed in the camps they have been established by the Ministry of Displacement and Migration.
Ahmad noted, that "literacy department in Kirkuk , an exhibition of hand works was organized under the slogan for Kirkuk free of illiteracy includes the products of scholars and students in scattered throughout the province centers , " noting that "this annual exhibition, the fifth of its kind in the province held by Department of literacy in Kirkuk , in cooperation with the representation of displaced literacy. " In turn, Iaros Shehab stressed, director of a literacy centers, " The participants in this exhibition have learned a lot of things that will avoid them in the coming days , and will work on the product of a lot of antiques and craftworks for material benefit , as well as use them in everyday life."
The activist says, Khawla Abdullah Mahmoud, said that "wives face Kirkuk illiteracy with a number of activities, events and display same ability to obtain financial resources independently in an exhibition organized by the Department of Literacy in Kirkuk for students in affiliated centers."
Rita Wael, was participating in the exhibition means a big thing, as was confirmed in her speech to the (range), indicating that "participation in this exhibition makes me mingled with employees who often do not find them in the market because our goods serve them physically because we sell at very suitable ".
In a related context, Abdullah Hassan confirmed an activist in Kirkuk that "there are in Kirkuk , more than 100 literacy centers in the province and 25 centers for the displaced, as well as there are 12 community centers to teach life skills such as sewing, hairdressing, cosmetics and food industries, computer and handicrafts and first aid in addition to It is the most important center for literacy and literacy. "
He pointed Hassan that "women in Kirkuk have the desire to study and learn as well as searching for a way out removes many concerns that suffer from them , " he said, adding that "age is not an obstacle to students in literacy centers , " explaining that " the beneficiaries of the study , aged between 15 to 70 years. "


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