Literacy

Despite an ongoing program of building new schools and requiring that children attend them. Morocco has an overall literacy rate of less than fifty percent. In rural areas with little access to schools it may be as low as twenty percent.

In remote areas the only educational opportunity available may be in the local mosque and is usually only
for boys. Here they learn to read and write while memorizing portions of the Qur’an. When children begin to attend school in Berber regions, they are often faced with an Arabic-speaking teacher who does not speak their Berber language. Only primary schools are in place in many rural areas. Further education may require a child to live in a distant town at parental expense. This is not a viable option for most.

In rural areas, most elementary students are boys because it is considered more important that young girls learn to manage a household than to read or write. In fact, this limited view affects the education of boys as well since work tends to be seen as productive and education not. Even in cities where most young children do attend school, a surprising number receive their only education as apprentices to craftsmen.

"Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light for my path." Psalm 119:105

"The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom; all who follow his precepts have good understanding. To
him belongs eternal praise." Psalm 111:10

"The law of the Lord is perfect, reviving the soul. The statutes of the Lord are trustworthy, making wise the simple." Psalm 19:7

Pray the Islamic educational process in Morocco will fail to indoctrinate children but will cause them to be curious about Christianity.
Pray government programs to increase literacy rates will succeed.
Pray God will prosper ongoing efforts to create and distribute Scriptures on audiotape in all the Moroccan languages.

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