2. What is literacy?
 In our perspective, literacy is the ability to
talk, write fluently and as well as the
ability read.
 It is probably what we call education.
 Visual literacy includes in addition the
ability to understand all forms of
communication, be it body language,
pictures, maps, or video.

3.  In the world, literacy is a huge
problem to many of the third
world countries. In the poorest
countries, education cannot be
afforded by the people, thus
lesser than of the population
knows how to read, write and
speak.

4. Actions taken
 Literacy is an important factor as it
impacts lives greatly. Illiterate people
would have difficulties getting employed
and would probably live in poverty.
 Next slide will show some actions that
some people did to try improve the
literacy rate of people living in poor
countries.

5. Room to Read
 Room to Read had its humble origins in Nepal in 2000, where they began
bringing donated books to rural communities. Today, they are a global
organization dedicated to promoting and enabling education through
programs focused on literacy and gender equality in education. They
achieve this goal by establishing school libraries, building schools,
publishing local language children's books, training teachers on literacy
education and supporting girls to complete secondary school with the life
skills necessary to succeed in school and beyond.

6. Stones into Schools
 Over the past seventeen years, Greg Mortenson, through his non-profit
Central Asia Institute (CAI), has worked to promote peace through
education by establishing more than 171 schools, most of them for girls,
in remote regions of Pakistan and Afghanistan.
 The story of how this remarkable humanitarian campaign began was told
in his bestselling 2006 book, Three Cups of Tea. Mortenson’s
philosophies about building relationships, empowering communities, and
educating girls have struck a powerful chord. Hundreds of communities
and universities, as well as several branches of the U.S. military, have
used Three Cups of Tea as a common read.
 Stones into Schools brings to life both the heroic efforts of the CAI’s
fixers on the ground—renegade men of unrecognized and untapped
talent who became galvanized by the importance of girls’ education—and
the triumphs of the young women who are now graduating from the
schools. Their stories are ones you will not soon forget.