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In the summer of 2000 the Vietnam Society of Learning Promotion (15) a campaign for illiteracy eradication. In the campaign, six hundred ethnic minority students from the northern highlands were asked to provide reading and writing skills to 1,200 illiterate people living in their own villages. In 2001, eight hundred volunteer. Students took (16) in the campaign. The number of people receiving reading and writing lessons (17) 4,623. This was an effective way to help people in remote and mountainous areas to read and write.

The fight against illiteracy continued in the summer of 2002. This time the Vietnam Society of Learning Promotion decided to expand its activities to the central mountainous provinces. At present, the number of illiterate people in the remote and mountainous areas is gradually decreasing. It is hoped that illiteracy will soon be (18) in our country as more and more people are taking part (19) the struggle against it.

In the summer of 2000 the Vietnam Society of Learning Promotion (15) a campaign for illiteracy eradication.