UNESCO[i]
declared 8 September International
Literacy Day in 1966. The purpose of celebrating this day each year is to
remind the international community that literacy for all makes a healthy
society — socially, politically, mentally, and physically healthy, that is.
Almost 50 years after the first Literacy Day, many countries
still struggle with basic education and literacy. Our friend Sandra
Fisher-Martins[ii]
tells a story about how written information affects the lives of people who
can’t read. Listen to Sandra’s story about her neighbour Mr Domingos in her TED
talk.
And in New Zealand and Australia, many people in our own adult
communities find daily information difficult to take in and use.
Find out what’s being done to improve adult literacy by
subscribing to the valuable newsletters at Workbase New Zealand. As a not-for-profit trust, they support
organisations and people to build literacy, language, numeracy, and
communication skills for a modern economy and society.
Workbase brings literacy to people at their workplace. They
know that people’s general health, their safety at work and their economic
status is closely linked to their literacy. You can read Susan Reid’s
informative blog about health literacy, and subscribe to Workbase’s monthly health literacy newsletter.
At Write Limited we help writers in organisations small and
large apply plain language techniques to their information. Writers may have a
higher level of literacy than the thousands of readers they write for. Our plain
language solutions help writers make health information, financial information,
legal information, any information easier to read, take in and use. Our newsletters will show you how.
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