International Literacy Day

Literacy means "Ability to read and write and the act of being educated." In the word of Bar ak Obama literacy is an essential need for the development of a person or a country. The countries having low literacy rate are economically failed and their progress rate is low. Simply literacy  is a bridge from misery to hope.

Some researchers suggest that the history of interest in the concept of “literacy” can be divided into two periods.  Firstly is the period before 1950, when literacy was understood solely as alphabetical literacy (word and letter recognition).  Secondly is the period after 1950, when literacy slowly began to be considered as a wider concept and process, including the social and cultural aspects of reading and writing, and functional literacy

On October 26 1996 at the 14th session of UNESCO general conference declared 8th September as Every year this day is celebrated with specific themes. In this year International Literacy Day was 2020, the theme of International Literacy Day focus on "literacy teaching and learning in the Covid-19 crisis and beyond specially on the sole of educations and chugging pedagogies. The theme highlights literacy learning in a lifelong learning perspective and therefore mainly to cusses on youth and adult.

Some 775 million lack minimum literacy skills;  one in five adults are still not literate and two-thirds of them are women; 60.7 million children are out-of-school and many more attend irregularly or drop out.

This International Literacy Day is an occasion to give hope to the millions of women, men and children. Who cannot read or write even their own names. It is a timely remedy to the world about the importance of literacy for individuals families and the whole societies.