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Eighteen months ago, before squaring off against world illiteracy on a broad scale, U.N.'s Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) decided to try a small-scale test of its methods in Haiti's remote Marbial Valley, where illiteracy was the rule. To the valley six months ago went a team of UNESCO educators to begin the experiment. Last week, Lake Success announced that the project was being suspended. The UNESCO officials, said U.N., had come down with something almost as common in the Marbial Valley as illiteracy: malaria...
Haiti's Marbial section was almost ideal for the experiment. Of its 26,000 inhabitants, three out of four can neither read nor write. They speak a Creole dialect of French, live in thatched huts with dirt floors, suffer from worms, decaying teeth, malaria and tuberculosis. A UNESCO expert, armed with films, books, posters and phonograph records, will work with a Haitian Government team to teach the fundamentals of hygiene, flood control, modern agriculture, the three Rs. UNESCO will pass on what it learns to teams in Asia, Africa, South America...
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