Literacy is a fundamental component of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals adopted by the world leaders which promotes universal access to learning opportunities and quality education for the general mass.
Beyond its conventional concept as a set of reading, writing and counting skills, literacy is now understood as a means of identification, understanding, interpretation, creation, and communication in an increasingly digital, text-mediated, information-rich and fast-changing world.
Globally, at least 750 million youth and adults still cannot read and write and 250 million children are failing to acquire basic literacy skills.
The goals aim to ensure every young person achieves the ability to read and write as well as skilled with numbers and mathematics and the adults without skills gets the opportunity to acquire skills.
Every 8th of September is an opportunity for the civil society, government and stakeholders to improve on the general rate of literacy to better our world against the challenge of literacy
The uneven distribution of literacy challenges across human populace still persists irrespective of the progress that has been made already. There’s need to adopt language diversity and variation in the education system and literacy development in order to help tackle the challenges facing literacy in our society and achieve the Sustainable Development Goals.
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International literacy day 2019 focuses on literacy and multilingualism as it concerns development in our today’s digitalized and globalized world which will improve and also benefit international relationship and partnership.
Multilingualism as an approach to tackle literacy challenge is vital to get more reach of individuals, society and regions that are limited by language to advance the literacy agenda to a more sustainable and literate environment.
Schools, universities and other educational institutes around the world should join hands together to promote literacy and its importance through effective connections between literacy, multilingualism, technical and vocational skills in practice, governance and systems in our societies.
More time should be donated to storytelling, reading clubs, local libraries and writing as well as provision of teaching and learning resources to inspire and empower minds through a world of words.
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