'Khabar Lahariya' bags UNESCO Literacy Prize for 2009

United Nations, Aug 4 (PTI) Nirantar, a non-governmental
organisation, which runs "Khabar Lahariya" a fortnightly
newspaper in Hindi run entirely by rural women in north Indian
state of Uttar Pradesh has bagged the prestigious UNESCO King
Sejong Literacy Prize 2009.

Established in 1989 with support from Government of South
Korea, the annual award has also gone to Tin Tua's Literacy
and Non-Formal Education Programme in eastern Burkina Faso,
UNESCO said in a statement.

The awards would be presented at the UNESCO headquarters
in Paris in December.

Announcing the award, UNESCO said "Khabar Lahariya"
meaning "news waves" of the UP NGO Nirantar has created a
rural fortnightly newspaper entirely produced and marketed by
"low caste" women, distributed to more than 20,000 newly
literate readers.

Its well-structured method of training newly literate
women as journalists and democratising information production
and provides an easily replicated model of transformative
education.

The newspaper was launched in May 2002 and on Tuesday the
eight-page fortnightly newspaper is a thriving and respected
concern with a readership of over 25,000 in more than 400
villages in the Chitrakoot and Banda districts of Uttar
Pradesh, UNESCO said. PTI LKJ
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