Did you know more than 70 million children worldwide aren’t attending primary school?
A new photo gallery of projects will take you into village classrooms throughout Sri Lanka, Haiti, Brazil, and Istanbul to see first-hand how Rotary is helping reverse low literacy statistics one student at a time.
See the gallery at http://www.rotary.org/en/MediaAndNews/News/Pages/110621_news_literacy.aspx
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The issues are myriad: a scarcity of schools and learning materials, insufficient government spending on education, and cultural stigmas that limit education for women and girls, to name a few. And the problem goes far beyond the inability to decipher words on a page. In an increasingly complex worl