Morocco Launches Online Mosque Literacy Program Amid COVID-19 Pandemic

During this learning and teaching period, the ministry will ensure active and effective support for the beneficiaries, in ideal health conditions, it said in a technical sheet made public on the occasion of National Literacy Day. Moreover, the beneficiaries and the staff will have free access to the Internet.

The pedagogical evaluation will be organized on an ongoing basis by the ministry, to "strengthen the effects of the teaching and learning process. All this to ensure equity and equal opportunities and achieve honorable results and beneficial effects," the same note stressed.

This mode of teaching had been adopted during the health confinement (March-June 2020) with success. The program supervisors had used all the necessary electronic means and pedagogical methods to achieve the ministry’s objective. The annual remote evaluation organized by the ministry had taken into account the results of the continuous control during confinement by more than 20%, the ministry announced, appreciating the honorable results obtained.

It should be noted that the total number of beneficiaries of the distance literacy program for the 2019-2020 school year was nearly 298,875, including 273,366 women. 165,060 came from the urban environment, and 133,815 from the rural environment, and 4,114 people in detention. Nearly 241,516 students were admitted for the 2019-2020 school year, it is further stated.