Basic education is an emblem of hope for looking into the future. It is an island of excellence floating on the sea of mediocrity. As vaccines help us to stop the spread of disease, literacy helps us to stop the spread of hunger, poverty and daily struggle. This affliction affects more than one million people across the globe. Approximately 1/7th of the entire world’s population
Literacy provides a platform for a decent livelihood and there is an absolute challenge in addressing the issue. The key areas of focus to overcome are to Include the excluded from education, try to reach out to the unreached and encourage people who didn’t get a fair handshake in education for the reasons they couldn’t help. However, we are neither in a cage nor living in a stone age. The digital era will deliver a bunch of opportunities to access our abilities and make progress in life.
As humans, we all have a well-formed mind which reacts to unfamiliar facts and details by synthesizing information that we haven’t studied before. Adding a jewel to the crown, literacy will empower people in real ways. Structuring them into examples, a person who could able to observe and understand the destination of a bus where it is going, instead of asking someone for help. Where one can understand the signs on a big street rather than feeling helpless. These day-to-day life examples may seem simple but, makes a huge difference in their lives.
We are at a pivot point in history, the transmission of knowledge of any tradecraft in our country has no longer been through a gene pool. Technology has evolved as one of the defining factors to master any vocation skill in society. Although these might not land an individual in a white-collar career yet, provide an opportunity for any frugal innovation by stripping down according to our country’s condition. Precisely, literacy will fill the voids and shift a person from confusion to a conclusion in their life.
