International Literacy Day is aimed to promote the importance of literacy as a matter of dignity and human rights, and to advance the literacy agenda towards a more literate and sustainable society.
This year, International Literacy Day 2020 focuses on “Literacy teaching and learning in the COVID-19 crisis and beyond,” especially on the role of educators and changing pedagogies.
I believe that the biggest impediment to becoming literate is the lack of access to education, especially in rural areas and among those in the B40 group.
Government, society and parent should double their efforts to bring education to several rural communities through community projects such as establishing a library and cultivate the reading habit.
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