UNESCO aids Syria to build 6 new educational centers

DAMASCUS, Nov. 15 (Xinhua) -- The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and Syria signed on Sunday an agreement on establishing six educational centers in the eastern region, the official SANA news agency reported.

The agreement aims at eliminating illiteracy, providing vocational training for grown-ups and achieving development in Raqqa, Deir Ezzor and Raqqa governorates in the east of Syria.

The agreement grants scholarships worthy of 120,000 U.S. dollars for those involved in the project and stipulates that the Syrian government will fulfill the requirements of the project, providing necessary staff, tools, sites and so on, according to the report.

Abdul-Aziz Othman, head of UNESCO office in Beirut, indicated in a statement that the UNESCO will establish more educational centers in the future, pointing out that the organization will also offer scholarships to the occupied Syrian Golan students to pursue their academic studies.