Afghanistan: Pashai MTB BE Programme 5
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Afghanistan: Pashai MTB BE Programme 5
Where do the Pashai people live?
Approximately 400,000 Pashai people live in northeastern Afghanistan. The Pashai mother tongue-based bilingual education( MTB BE) programme began in the Dara-i-Noor District of Nangarhar Province.
What was the educational situation for Pashai children before the programme began?
Literacy rates in the areas where the Pashai live were extremely low. Although Pashai were bilingual in Pashai( their MT) and Pashto( one of the two official languages of Afghanistan), more than 85 percent of the people, including about 98 percent of the women, were illiterate
5 Ms. Carloes Brink, Technical Coordinator for Literacy and Multilingual Education, Serve Afghanistan, provided information for this section.
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