September is Basic Education and Literacy Month for Rotary
This is one of Rotary’s seven areas of focus. We all know how critical reading and writing are for success in life – for gaining information, communicating, making agreements, and so forth.
Enhancing Basic Education skills and Literacy are essential in reducing poverty, improving health, encouraging community and economic development, and promoting peace. Improvements can reduce maternal death, improve childhood survivability, and reduce poverty. They can also enable success in business or a profession.
Projects undertaken by a Rotary Club can address low adult literacy, returning youth to school, enhancing student performance, or supplementing limited school resources.
Enhancing Basic Education skills and Literacy are essential in reducing poverty, improving health, encouraging community and economic development, and promoting peace. Improvements can reduce maternal death, improve childhood survivability, and reduce poverty. They can also enable success in business or a profession.
Projects undertaken by a Rotary Club can address low adult literacy, returning youth to school, enhancing student performance, or supplementing limited school resources.
Our goal is to strengthen the capacity of communities to support basic education and literacy, reduce gender disparity in education, and increase adult literacy. We support education for all children and literacy for children and adults.
Just a few of the programs that Rotary offers include:
- Teacher Training — We share our knowledge and experience with educators and other professionals who work with vulnerable populations.
- Adult Literacy — Rotary members fight adult illiteracy by working with local advocates to offer community literacy programs.
- Rotary Scholarships — Rotary members invest in the future by giving scholarships to students who have the potential to change our communities.
Much of the work of Rotary International to improve basic education is made possible through the efforts of hard-working Rotarians and grants provided by The Rotary Foundation.