How can literacy change peoples life

How can literacy change peoples life 

 (By Neha Soni ) 

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“Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope.”

In the international bestselling book, “I am Malala: The Story of the Girl who stood up for Education and was shot by the Taliban,” Malala Yousafzai expressed her thoughts about the importance of education through several salient points.

One of the points mentioned in the book reads, “Let us acquire our books and our pens, they're our most powerful weapons. One child, one teacher, and one pen can change the world.”

Education ends up in many benefits within society furthermore as in an exceedingly very person’s life. Some benefits from literacy are as follows:-

Political benefits from literacy

The empowering potential of literacy can translate into increased political participation and contribute to the standard of public policies and democracy.

1. Political participation: the connection between education and political participation is well developed. Educated people are to some extent more likely to vote and stand for more tolerant attitudes and democratic values.

 

2. Democracy: with more education, people are more likely to understand the nation’s problems and are more likely to vote. 

 

3. Post-conflict situations: Literacy programs can have control on peace and reconciliation in post-conflict contexts. Mobilizing people’s capacity for resilience by having them write down their experiences and share them with others helps those plagued by conflict to return to terms with their trauma and move towards constructive action.

 

Economic benefits from literacy

An economy’s success lies within the spending power of its people. This comes only through more opportunities, more developed skills, better employment, and better salaries. Employment creation has proven to be the foremost effective tool in poverty reduction and better employment only comes through better education. In fact, on average, one year of education is estimated to increase wage earnings by 10 percent.

Employment benefits from literacy

Research shows that literacy skills play a crucial part in terms of employability and wages. Men who are poor in literacy are more likely to be in semiskilled and unskilled jobs, to possess fewer work-related training courses, to possess lower weekly wages and poorer promotion opportunities. Individuals with low literacy skills and qualities are also less likely to be promoted in their workplace.

Health benefits from literacy

Literacy fights poverty within the healthcare arena also. Being literate helps people better understand health concerns and better educate themselves when it involves healthcare. This is often especially important in developing countries, where disease can dictate a cycle of poverty. The statistics linking literacy and generational health provide clarity:

• It's estimated that death rate rates decrease 9 percent for every year of education attained.

• Understanding the concept of reading and writing makes it less likely that children are underweight or malnourished.

• People having the flexibility to read and write can help to slow down the spread of infectious diseases.

• Maternal education can help mitigate the results of diseases like pneumonia.

Personal development benefits from literacy

When knowledgeable footballer decides to further his career in another country where a definite language is spoken from what he's accustomed to, it's often advised by sports psychologists that learning the language should be at the best possible of his checklist as soon as he arrives within the country to ply his trade. The reason is that communication and connection are tied to self-esteem and confidence, and are the premise of who we are and also the way we live together.

The same thing applies to all of us irrespective of what we do. When someone struggles with reading and writing, the social impacts are enormous; social issues like low self-esteem, shame, fear begin to line in. But one who possesses basic literacy skills at the very least, knows his or her rights, can voice out, can add value to the workplace and hence be ready to foot family bills and encourage the trust, respect, and confidence of his or her immediate family.

Poverty fighting benefits from literacy

If ending poverty is the ultimate word goal, then literacy is the starting line. Literacy allows other development goals to happen.

Literacy creates opportunities for people to develop skills to supply for themselves and their family, while at identical time positively impacting each generation through raised expectations and increased self-esteem. Literacy fights poverty very identical because of the feet of a duck fight against the water beneath it. Though it's visiting not always be seen, much work lies below the surface.

“A child who reads will be a man who thinks.”

Disclaimer:-

The opinions expressed in this article are the personal opinions of the author. The facts and opinions appearing in the article do not reflect the views of Light de Literacy and LDL does not assume any responsibility or liability for the same.