Sunday, 23 October 2011

Fighting Illiteracy

When I saw a huge poster on the National Library about how 1 million Peruvian adults had learnt to read I have to admit that I was shocked. At that time, there were 28 million Peruvians, so if 1 million had just learnt to read, that didn't speak well for Peru.

I'm glad that Peru is fighting against literacy, but I have to admit they have a lot of changes to make, starting with the horrible libraries which I'll write about in more detail later.

Thanks go to Wikipedia Commons for this chart on the left. Nowadays, world illiteracy is still pretty high: 20%. Even with all the technical advances, the fact that people still can't read is baffling. Governments must take a stand against this.

Resources: Check out the Ultimate Peru List's recommended ebooks and The LA Jobs List's free list of schools in Peru.

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