What's the deal with your Literacy thing....Everyone can read, right?

We lead such insulated lives for the most part. If you’re literate, you generally hang out with equally literate people. Some of your friends may complain that they’re not very good writers, but then everyone knows writing is a specialty craft, so it doesn’t really count.

When you’re not literate, and you hang out with people who are, you try to hide your deficiency. It’s not like you want to advertise that you can’t read adequately, or have trouble sounding out big words in your head, or have trouble understanding dictionary definitions once you locate the big words. Being honest about your literacy level could limit your workplace mobility or impact the quality of your interactions with others.

Most people who have limited literacy don’t advertise it. And they often cope by being really smart about passing as literate. They become astute observers and listeners to the people around them in an office, or on a bus, or on the street. Limited literacy is widespread in the Western world. Lack of literacy skills is a global problem that affects millions of people.

Don’t kid yourself into thinking that African or Indian or Chinese non-literacy is ‘their’ problem. It is our problem in the West too! Literacy skills allow people to read to improve their lives whether it’s reading about sanitation, about the value of early childhood education or voting in elections. Literacy for all people is an obtainable world goal that we should all be advocating for in order to discover how to cohabit on this planet in peace.

Through our active awareness and donations of time and money we can make world literacy a fact. Illiteracy can be overcome.

 

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