From: Subject: Scoop: UN Goes Online To Educate Rural People Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2005 16:44:02 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/related; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0242_01C56792.4850ACE0"; type="text/html" X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1441 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0242_01C56792.4850ACE0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Location: http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0504/S00389.htm?mode=print Scoop: UN Goes Online To Educate Rural = People 3D"Scoop

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UN Goes Online To Educate Rural People

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Press=20 Release: United Nations =

UN Goes Online To = Educate=20 Rural People With Tool Kit To Slash Hunger And Poverty=20

Apr 26 2005

Efforts to achieve the Millennium Development Goal of slashing world = hunger=20 and poverty in half by 2015 received a new boost today from an online=20 educational tool kit=20 targeting rural people , launched by the United Nations Food and = Agriculture=20 Organization.

For the first time, a wide range of teaching and learning tools for = the=20 education of rural people is available on the Internet, providing = governments,=20 international and non-governmental organizations (NGOs), rural school = teachers,=20 extension agents and the public at large with the latest knowledge on = how to=20 help rural communities better their livelihoods.

=93The tool kit will help policy-makers to implement education = programmes and=20 improve the quality level of education in rural areas,=94 said Lavinia = Gasperini,=20 an FAO expert who works in close collaboration with the UN Educational,=20 Scientific and Cultural Organization and other organizations on the = Education=20 for Rural People initiative, launched at the World Summit on Sustainable = Development in 2002 in Johannesburg.

=93You cannot promote agriculture if you fail to educate rural = people. The=20 first Millennium Development Goal =96 reducing hunger and poverty =96 = will not be=20 achieved unless we give a higher priority to improving education in = rural areas,=20 where the majority of the people live,=94 she added.

Hunger, malnutrition and food insecurity reduce school attendance and = erode=20 cognitive abilities. Conversely, illiteracy and lack of education reduce = earning=20 capacity and contribute to hunger and poverty. Education plays a = fundamental=20 role in improving the food security, incomes and productivity of rural = people.=20 It also helps to promote new technologies, as literate people are more = inclined=20 to adopt these technologies and to protect their environment.

The tool kit is a valuable resource for all those whose daily work = consists=20 of training the rural poor in food and nutrition, local knowledge = systems,=20 agrobiodiversity, food quality and safety, rural finance, marketing, = forestry,=20 fisheries, communication and other related issues.

According to latest estimates, =93in the so-called global village, = about 130=20 million children, the majority of whom are rural, do not have a pencil = or a pen,=20 nor a book, nor a teacher, and do not go to school,=94 Ms Gasperini = said. These=20 children will become illiterate adults who will join the 880 million = illiterates=20 in the world, the majority of whom are rural adults.

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