6 ways you can help support the right to literacy around the world
 

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 that isn't always included in conversations about global inequality.

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Written language is one of the primary ways we communicate and relay information as a global society. But for about 781 million people 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...

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