Playing cards

IPPF News. 1977 Jan-Feb:2.

Abstract

PIP: Mrs. Zahia Marzouk, vice-president of the Alexandria Family Planning Association and a living legend of Egyptian family planning, does not believe in talking about problems. She is far too busy learning from people and teaching them. Her latest brainstorm is a set of playing cards designed to help girls and women to read and learn about family planning at the same time. The 5 packs of cards, representing familiar words and sounds, and each with a family planning joker, took Mrs. Marzouk 6 months to design and paint by hand. They have now been printed, packed into packets provided by UNICEF, and distributed to some 2000 literacy groups in factories and family planning clinics. Each woman who succeeds in learning to read is encouraged to teach 4 others. They then go to the family planning clinic to be examined and gain a certificate. For the teacher who has made them proficient there is a special prize. Girls at El Brinth village outside Alexandria are pictured playing cards at the family planning center where they are learning various skills including how to read.

MeSH terms

  • Africa
  • Africa, Northern
  • Developing Countries
  • Economics
  • Education*
  • Egypt
  • Family Planning Services*
  • Health Planning
  • Middle East
  • Patient Acceptance of Health Care*
  • Socioeconomic Factors*
  • Teaching Materials*
  • Women*