Rotarians all over the world, all through the history of Rotary International for more than a century have been looking for opportunities to serve the humanity in any area of concern of health and education. 
 

Both health and education are equal challenges for an organization like Rotary International, but education is of great significance since one third of world’s population are children below the age of 15. Even among the adults in some parts of the world, there is a huge percentage of illiterate, particularly, the women in such areas. Literacy has been identified as the crucial issue when we think of health, hygiene, drug abuse, HIV aids, terrorism and so on. In short, for all the social evils. Literacy is required more than ever before to improve the quality of life. 
 

Literacy would have been the main thrust area for Rotarians if we had not launched the global polio immunization programme. We certainly have to give priority for the polio eradication programme. In the last few years, the Presidents of Rotary International have been laying emphasis on literacy promotion. UNESCO has declared “Education for all by 2020”. Rotary has promoted the project of Concentrated Language Encounter (CLE) evolving ‘Light House’ strategy, functional literacy, adult literacy, THE LOFT (after school programme), Vocational Training, adopt a school, adopt a library, Dictionary programme, Numeracy promotion and several other programmes to promote literacy. 
 

The formation of the Literacy Fellowship has been a milestone in these efforts. We invite Rotarians to join this Fellowship to help the efforts of the fellowship committee to expand its projects and programmes. 
 

P C THOMAS

CHAIRMAN - FELLOWSHIP OF LITERACY PROVIDERS

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