(Rasmei
Kampuchea, Wednesday, March
28, 2012)
Vol.
20, No. 5771
Phnom Penh: The Government of Japan has agreed to
provide US$17,570 to Cultural Aid Project for South East Asia for the Project
for Supporting Literacy Education.
Mr. Machida Tatsuya, Counsellor, Embassy of
Japan to the Kingdom of Cambodia, and Dr. Penn Setharin, Representative of
Cultural Aid Project for South East Asia, signed here on Tuesday, March 27,
2012 at the Embassy of Japan the Grant Contracts.
Around 3,000 children will enjoy learning to
read and write through colorful reading books in Khmer, said Mr. Machida
Tatsuya after the signing ceremony. In addition, he added, the mobile library
of Cultural Aid Project for South East Asia has planned to go every week to
different villages so that local students and villagers could read different
books including picture books translated from Japanese.
For her part, Dr. Penn Setharin said the
project of publishing reading books and translating picture books into Khmer is
very important for both children and adults who start learning to write and
read. This is a good method for literacy as well as morality education for
children and the Cambodian people in contribution to the development of human
resource in Cambodia, she said.
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