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The Aga Khan Development Network, with the government today signed a memorandum of Portuguese support for the National Plan of Reading which lasts for three years.
Lisbon, July 14 (Lusa) – The Aga Khan Network for the development, which adds seven agencies for development, with the government today signed a memorandum of Portuguese support for the National Plan of Reading which lasts for three years.
According to the protocol, the Aga Khan Network will support 300 schools of teaching children and pre-school through the purchase for their libraries of books valued at 150 thousand euros.
This protocol is valid under the same terms for 2009 and 2010.
Source of the Aga Khan Foundation, one of seven agencies that integrates the Network, told the Lusa that their support have no religious character and are intended merely to support early childhood, which has been one of the concerns of Prince Aga Khan, celebrating this year its jubilee of gold.
The same source stressed the Lusa that the work has been done in the neighborhoods of Lisbon and Ameixoeira Alta Mira in Lisbon and Sintra under the programme of community development “K’cidade.”
In signing the protocol was attended by ministers of Parliamentary Affairs, Augusto Santos Silva, Culture, Jose Antonio Pinto Ribeiro, the Secretary of State for Education, Jorge Pedreira, a representative of the Aga Khan network, Nazim Ahmad, and also the coordinator of the Plan National Reading, Isabel Alçada.
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