Since 1966, International Literacy Day has been celebrated every September 8. Yet there are still millions who cannot read and write well enough to make well-informed decisions. Today one in five adults is still not literate and two-thirds of them are women while 72 million children are out of school.
Literacy is a cause for celebration since there are now close to four billion literate people in the world. However, literacy for all – children, youth and adults - is still an unaccomplished goal and an ever moving target. A combination of ambitious goals, insufficient and parallel efforts, inadequate resources and strategies, and continued underestimation of the magnitude and complexity of the task accounts for this unmet goal. Lessons learnt over recent decades show that meeting the goal of universal literacy calls not only for more effective efforts but also for renewed political will and for all of us doing things differently at all levels - locally, nationally and internationally.
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