Non-formal education is unquestionably the most elusive and ill-defined sector of distance educators' work worldwide. The label gets pasted on such diverse activites as health education, agricultual education and traning for farmers, women's group activities, income-generation activities, adult literacy classes, leisure time education for adults, out-of-school schools for young dropouts, second language teaching, AIDS awareness campaigns, and work-based traning at worker and management levels.