Over fifty years ago, UNESCO declared September 8 International Literacy Day to promote literacy across the globe and rally the international community. Today, we continue to observe this day by involving ourselves in this important cause. Around the world, nearly 800 million people are illiterate in their own languages. Two-thirds of these people are women. Literacy is incredibly vital in so many ways and it is for these reasons International Literacy Day came to be. We know you want to do something to both celebrate literacy where it thrives and advocate for an increase in literacy and education opportunities where it does not, so we have the ideas and information you need to get to it and make the most of this important day!

-nationaltoday.com