I got married at 19 and never allowed my kids to skip one day of school as their education was my life goal. When I turned 25, I enrolled in a literacy class at my kids’ school, I used to go with them and I obtained the literacy certificate. The GAAE was formally established in 1993 as an agency under the Cabinet of Ministers to open literacy centers across the country. “When I enrolled in the literacy program, my life changed and I discovered that much information people used to tell me were false. “We are still treated differently in universities and other [formal] institutions because we are literacy program graduates.

Source: Egypt Today March 10, 2018 15:00 UTC