Literacy helps to cross an individual from misery to hope and finally to the road of success.
It is a tool to improve the standard of living and utilising the potential, said Kiran Zubair, Project Coordinator, Idarae Taleem-o-Aagahi (ITA).
The ‘International Literacy Day’ is being celebrated in Drop in Centres, Korangi, recently on the theme “Literacy and Sustainable Development”.
In line with the theme for this year’s International Literacy Day, Idarae Taleem-o-Aagahi (ITA) with collaboration with the partner schools celebrated the International Literacy Day in the city, Karachi, under the banner “Provide Education and Safe Schools in Emergencies”.
Art, debates and essay competition were held in all primary schools (classes 3, 4 and 5), debates and essay competitions in middle and high schools (classes 6, 7 and 8). ‘Education Walks’ near the local MNA’s offices was placed by school children, teachers and ITA team members in order to highlight the significance of the day and showed solidarity for the issue.
A post card campaign was also carried out in all literacy centers of Korangi. The cards were filled out by school children and community members in order to pledge allegiance to literacy and education for all under the upcoming deadline for the MDGs. The ITA hopes to reach a figure of 20,000 cards addressed to the president, prime minister, all chief ministers of provinces and education ministers of province as an appeal to address the urgent education emergency.
The pledge forms were also filled out by students of these schools reading ‘I want good education and safe schools because…’ in English, Urdu and Sindhi with the students completed the sentence in his/her own hand writing as evidence for their dedication and commitment to education. This signature pledge was used as the start of a 500 day campaign towards the conclusion of the MDGs and Pakistan’s effort to make an impression on this day.
