Educational project worth $1, 4 million launched

SANA'A, Nov. 22 (Saba)- Minister of Education Abdussalam al-Jawfi
inaugurated on Saturday here " Intitlaq" educational project for
science and mathematics subjects to the ninth class via the Spider
Network with the cost of $ 1, 4 million.

Funded by donors and private sector from next February and last for
a complete year, the project aims at giving access to students in 20
schools in the Capital Sana'a and governorates of Aden, Taiz and
Hadramout to gain skills on using information technology and
communication in these subjects.

Minister al-Jawfi made it clear that inaugurating the project via
the Spider Network, in addition to launching the project of
improving secondary education due next week is a new breakthrough in
the ministry tendencies not only in updating and improving education
but also in mechanisms of multi-funding programs.

"Participation of the private sector in this project, as complete
work affiliated with the ministry, is the first of its kind in
realizing quality despite the income amounting to YR 55 billion the
sector gets from its work in private school," Al-Jawfi, who
highlighted support of donors to this project, said.


For his part, US ambassador to Yemen Stephen Seche described
partnership between the private and public sectors as "unique of its
kind" for enabling Yemeni children get access to good education to
be able to participate in the development and democratic process.