Giza governorate was among 16 cities from around the globe which won the UNESCO Learning City Award this year. 

Giza Deputy Governor Manal Mowad was handed over the award during the third International Conference on Learning Cities in Cork, Ireland.

The winning cities were selected by an international jury for the outstanding progress made in promoting education and lifelong learning in their local communities.

Giza has put great emphasis on enhancing literacy and providing its citizens with incentives to engage in literacy opportunities; these include free education and healthcare, according to UNESCO.

The 2017 awardees are: Bristol (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland), Câmara de Lobos (Portugal), Contagem (Brazil), Gelsenkirchen (Germany), Giza (Egypt), Hangzhou (China), Larissa (Greece), Limerick (Ireland), Mayo-Baléo (Cameroon), N’Zérékoré (Guinea), Okayama (Japan), Pécs (Hungary), Surabaya (Indonesia), Suwon (Republic of Korea), Tunis (Tunisia), Villa Mar?a (Argentina).

The 16 UNESCO Learning City Award winners are at different stages of evolving into learning cities; each face challenges – whether economic, political, social or environmental – which are specific to the area and therefore define the approaches they adopt.

Source: MENA