UNESCO celebrates International Literacy Day 2018

This year’s September 8, International Literacy Day, 2018 UNESCO celebrates the day with its wonderful theme “ Literacy and Skills Development”. International Literacy day is celebrated globally to raise awareness of literary issues and draw light on the action plan of curbing it. Around the world, there are still 750 million adults who still cannot read and write.Two- third of them are women and many of them are young people. On top of that 75 million children are out-of-school. In this vast globalized growing era of digitalisation and technical advancement, labor markets require skills and adequate knowledge. When combined literacy learning and skills development , the livelihood of the vulnerable part of population can be improved and employment opportunities will increase by threefold. Low skills and low literary will never stand as a barrier in between their dreams and they can accomplish their goals and live a life of dignity. Governments, civil society, academia and the private sector, must all take action now to fulfill the promise of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development to ensure that no one is left behind. The UN’s Sustainable Development Goals is adopted by world leaders in September 2015 to promote universal access to quality education and learning opportunities. The agenda targets ensuring that the young generation achieves literacy and numeracy and the adults who lack the skill should be given the opportunity to acquire them. Recently the data shows that the share of the world population that is literate over the last two centuries has gone from a tiny elite to a world where 8 out of 10 people can write. With four billion literate people in the world today Literacy is also a cause of celebration today !