International Literacy Day

စက္တင္ဘာ(၈)ရက္ဟာ နိုင္ငံတကာစာတတ္ေျမာက္ေရးေန႔ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။
ကမၻာေပၚမွာစာမတတ္သူ(၇၇၅)သန္းရွိတယ္။အရြယ္ေရာက္သူ(၅)ေယာက္မွာ
တစ္ေယာက္ဟာစာမတတ္ၾကဘူး၊၄င္းတို႔အထဲမွသံုးပံုနွစ္ပံုဟာအမ်ိဳးသမီးမ်ား
ျဖစ္ၾကတယ္လို႔ ယူနက္စ္ကိုက ေျပာပါတယ္။
September 8 was declared International Literacy Day by
UNESCO on November 17, 1965.
Its aim is to highlight the importance of literacy to
 individuals, communities and societies.
Celebrations take place in several countries.^[
Some 775 million adults lack minimum literacy skills;
one in five adults are still not literate
 and two-thirds of them are women;^[2] 60.7 million
 children are out-of-school and many
more attend irregularly or drop out.^[3]
According to UNESCO’s "Global Monitoring
 Report on Education for All (2006)",
 South and West Asia has the lowest regional
 adult literacy rate (58.6%), followed
by sub-Saharan Africa (59.7%), and the
 Arab States (62.7%). Countries with the
lowest literacy rates in the world are
Burkina Faso (12.8%), Niger (14.4%) and
Mali (19%). The report shows a clear connection
 between illiteracy and countries
in severe poverty, and between illiteracy

 and prejudice against women.