Imagine if you couldn't read

You would never be able to see this. You can't see this in fact because your mind hasn't been conditioned to read wingdings.. It's so strange to think that your ability to read it a gift given to you by virtue of your priveledged birth. However, so many children are born without that priveledge. Words and paragraphs to them are just blocks of symbols - like this one.

And this could be devastating. Imagine a pandemic sweeping a country, and news of it’s circulation and how to stop it’s spread published in the local newspaper. The illiterate would be severely disadvantaged and endangered.

But precisely because literacy is acquired (or man-made in a sense), we can help to reduce illiteracy in our own rights. 

World vision is offering Child Sponsorship which provides children with a chance at education and reduces illiteracy.

worldvision.org.sg/yearntolearn