Somalia dispatched 30,000 students to bring mass literacy to nomads

Evidence

In July 1974, at an estimated cost of £10 million, a huge taskforce of some 30,000 secondary school students and teachers was dispatched into the interior in triumphant truckloads. In parties of eight, with a teacher as leader and with the participation of veterinary and medical personnel, these young pioneers of the new Somalia set forth to teach the nomads to write their own language, hygiene, modern animal husbandry methods, basic civics and the aims of Scientific Socialism. — I.M. Lewis, I. M. Lewis, A Modern History of the Somali_ Nation…, 527 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Somalia launched a 30,000-strong literacy campaign into nomadic interior in 1974 — I.M. Lewis, I. M. Lewis, A Modern History of the Somali_ Nation…, 527

Related

• Somalia launched a 30,000-strong literacy campaign into nomadic interior in 1974 (similarity 0.94)
• The 1974 drought derailed the literacy campaign and Somalia mobilized openly against it (similarity 0.80)
• Somali school enrollment grew from two thousand to thirty-one thousand between 1950 and 1957. (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Somalia launched a 30,000-strong literacy campaign into nomadic interior in 1974 #corroborates (0.95) — I.M. Lewis, I. M. Lewis, A Modern History of the Somali_ Nation…, 527