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09-08-2016, 03:51 PM
6 ways you can help support the right to literacy around the world
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As you read this, you're exercising a human right just by looking at these letters, stringing them into words and understanding their meaning.
It's literacy in action — and it's a fundamental right (http://www.unesco.org/new/en/education/themes/education-building-blocks/literacy/) that isn't always included in conversations about global inequality.
SEE ALSO: These 15 projects are solving the world's toughest education problems (http://mashable.com/2016/07/22/education-projects-wise-awards/)
Written language is one of the primary ways we communicate and relay information as a global society. But for about 781 million people (http://unstats.un.org/unsd/gender/chapter3/chapter3.html) around the world, access to that information is blocked — simply because they're denied the opportunity to learn how to read and write. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/09/08/literacy-how-to-help/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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As you read this, you're exercising a human right just by looking at these letters, stringing them into words and understanding their meaning.
It's literacy in action — and it's a fundamental right (http://www.unesco.org/new/en/education/themes/education-building-blocks/literacy/) that isn't always included in conversations about global inequality.
SEE ALSO: These 15 projects are solving the world's toughest education problems (http://mashable.com/2016/07/22/education-projects-wise-awards/)
Written language is one of the primary ways we communicate and relay information as a global society. But for about 781 million people (http://unstats.un.org/unsd/gender/chapter3/chapter3.html) around the world, access to that information is blocked — simply because they're denied the opportunity to learn how to read and write. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/09/08/literacy-how-to-help/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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