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1. Why Literacy is Important
P R ES E N T E D BY : A N G J U N Y I , C H E W
T UA N LO O N G A N D LO K E YO N G J I A N

2. Contents
 What is literacy
 Why is it important
 Benefits of literacy…
 Without literacy...
 Social Entrepreneurship
 What we can do to promote literacy

3. What is Literacy?
 Literacy in simple terms is the ability to read and
write.
 Also it literacy refers to having the knowledge and
competence on a subject.
 The United Nations Educational , Scientific and
Cultural Organization ( UNESCO ) defines literacy as
the ‘ability to identify , understand , interpret , create
, communicate , compute and use printed and
written materials.

4. Why is it important?
 Benefits
 Literacy can benefit to economic growth , reduce
poverty , reduce crime.
 With literacy , people can be educated and get
employed for jobs instead of stealing to survive.
 Literacy helps to boost self-esteem , confidence and
empowerment.

5. Why is it important?
 Without Literacy
 Literacy is a huge impact on an individual’s ability to
participate in society and to understand. Without it ,
people will develop social problems and there will be
less communication in society.
 Literacy also have a bearing on how well a country
performs economically , without a strong workforce
the country’s economy will crippled.

6. Social Entrepreneur
 There are social entrepreneurs that do their best to
help out the less fortunate to receive literacy.
 John Wood and Greg Mortenson are two of the
many people who help out.
 John and Greg both sacrificed their own time and
energy to contribute to society.
 John Wood left his job at Microsoft to start his
mission on helping the less fortunate.

7. Social Entrepreneur
 Greg Mortenson too , sacrificed his time to raise
funds in order to build a school for a village.
 Both John Wood and Greg Mortenson did a lot with
their efforts in order to make the world a better place
for the children.
 It is important that social entrepreneurs exist
because without them , there will be a build up of
less fortunate people in the world.

8. What we can do to promote literacy
 Literacy can be promoted throughout the world by
common people like us.
 We can promote literacy by doing simple things like
, donating our used books , supporting organisation
which fight illiteracy and volunteering to teach the
less fortunate.
 If everyone in the world contributed a little to help
the world , the world will become a better place.

9. Thank You