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    International Literacy Day aims to highlight the importance of literacy in empowering individuals and societies and promoting literacy worldwide. It reminds us that over 750 million adults lack basic literacy skills, with women disproportionately affected, and 250 million children are not acquiring literacy. The event focuses on different themes each year related to literacy and its role in development, health, empowerment, peace, and sustainability.

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    International Literacy Day aims to highlight the importance of literacy in empowering individuals and societies and promoting literacy worldwide. It reminds us that over 750 million adults lack basic literacy skills, with women disproportionately affected, and 250 million children are not acquiring literacy. The event focuses on different themes each year related to literacy and its role in development, health, empowerment, peace, and sustainability.

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    International

    Literacy Day
    Presented by:
    Aims
    • to highlight the importance of literacy
    to empower individuals, communities
    and societies
    • to remind the international
    community of the status of literacy and
    adult learning globally
    • to remind us of the global importance
    of literacy
    • to promote literacy worldwide
    • to shine a light on global literacy
    needs
    Global Literacy Facts
    • 758 million adults lack minimum
    literacy skills
    • 479 million (two-thirds) of these are
    women
    • 250 million children are failing to
    acquire basic literacy skills
    • 60.7 million children are out-of-
    school and many more attend irregularly
    or drop out
    Past Literacy Day
    Themes (1)
    • 2006 - Literacy Sustains Development
    • 2007 - 2008 - Literacy and Health
    • 2009 - 2010 - Literacy and
    Empowerment
    • 2011 - 2012 - Literacy and Peace

    Past Literacy Day


    Themes (2)
    • 2013 - Literacy for the 21st Century
    • 2014 - Literacy and Sustainable
    Development
    • 2015 - Literacy and Sustainable
    Societies
    • 2016 - Reading the Past, Writing the
    Future
    • 2017 - Literacy in a Digital World

    International
    Literacy Day
    • to be held on
    • Sunday 8 September 2019

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