Those replicas can then be used in museums, as teaching aids, and a number of other uses.

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Use of appropriate teaching aids: The programme uses learning materials that learners encounter in their daily lives, but simplified to correspond with their reading level.

UNESCO: Adult Literacy Tutors Association (ALTA)

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, whose face adorns plastic skeletons used as teaching aids and trash cans inside Dar alShifa, still controls the best hospitals and much of the most precious medical resource: doctors.

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The Dakar Conference will just be another talking shop if governments are allowed to give lame excuses about shortcomings in girls education, run-down schools, inadequate teaching-learning aids, poor teacher supply, and funding.

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The specific objective of this initiative is to diversify literacy and post-literacy programmes in terms of intervention approach, teaching methods, educational aids, sustainability of learning outcomes and the integration of literacy into the process of sustainable development, the prevention of poverty, and the socio-economic integration of beneficiaries.

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The architect, who studied in Wisconsin, had been shocked when, on a visit home to the town of Buea, he was confronted with a community ravaged by AIDS. Though aid workers were teaching the message of prevention, Menyoli found that most locals trusted foreigners more readily when they said that HIV was not a lie or a conspiracy but a fatal disease.

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The trainees will learn how to use the full potential of information available on the Internet for non-teaching tasks, such as supporting children affected by HIV and AIDS - an increasingly important duty for South African teachers.

UNESCO: MEDIA SERVICES

The religious officials recognized that they could do a lot to halt the epidemic. (More than 30, 000 Malaysians are infected and another 2, 800 have developed symptoms.) "The leaders recognize they have a frontline role in prevention: equipping people with spiritual values and teaching everyone compassion, " says Selvaretnam, a member of the Malaysian AIDS Council headed by the premier's daughter, Marina Mahathir.

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