She says people who have had musical training have been shown to have superior processing skills.

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This type of experiential, addictive learning improves decision-making skills and increases the processing speed and spatial skills of the brain.

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The greatest impairment is found in attention, memory, judgment, decision-making, information processing and language skills.

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"What we don't know is whether there is something common to musical training that is common to attention, sequencing (processing the order in which something occurred), memory and language skills, " she says.

BBC: Magazine

To this end, the PLP emphasise training in, for example, literacy (mathematics, English, Urdu), health, agriculture (crop, fish, poultry and livestock production), life skills (peace-building, conflict management and resolution), food processing and preservation and dressmaking.

UNESCO: National Literacy Programme (NLP)