For empowering more than 160,000 people to read and write in the last two decades, Bhutan’s Non-Formal Education has bagged the UNESCO Confucius Prize for literacy. The prize was awarded at UNESCO headquarters in Paris today as a part of the International Literacy Day celebrations.
Bhutan is among four countries to receive the prize worth of US $ 20,000 each. Other countries are Colombo, Indonesia and Rwanda.
Non-Formal Education programme first began in 1992 with five centers and 300 learners. Today, Bhutan has 953 centres across the country with the enrollment of about 13,000 learners.
