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Literacy is Empowerment – being educated and literate empowers an individual in making choices for their own and their families’ happiness, and in being productive citizens of the world. Education in our minds has evolved from the 3Rs (Reading, wRiting and aRithmetic) to the 3Es (Education, Employment and Empowerment) .
Rotary in India has taken up a literacy drive all over the country. Rotary in India is arranging to train teachers even in the remote places through its network of over 3600 Rotary Clubs which can be even in the remote corners of the villages of India to educate the people, irrespective of their age or profession.
The programme of education has taken a bold step, and the results are encouraging. The students and the educated youth are also encouraged to come forward to join the literacy drive .
Rotary Clubs put their efforts to see that Classes can are held in a primary school or in any other suitable place that is available in the area chosen for literacy movement. Teaching can be arranged in the morning or in the evening.
The students may be peasants, mill workers, or traders, the poor or the rich. The efforts are made to see that Education is free and voluntary. The students are supplied with the books, and taught first how to read them, and then, how to write the scripts, imitating the printed letters in the books.
The program has received tremendous response and shown great interest in adult education, apart from the education of the young ones.
The percentage of literate persons in India has considerably increased in comparison with the figures of the earlier years. It is found that in the villages, the young and the old men and women assemble and sit together to take lessons from the teachers who have been specially trained and appointed for the purpose of teaching the illiterate mass.
The Rotaract Clubs are encouraged and motivated to come forward voluntarily to actively participate in this noble literacy drive and make this country free from the curse of illiteracy.
Total literacy in India is the dream of Rotary and of course with the support of many other organisations in this field Rotary is hopeful of achieving this goal . Needless to say the Government of India and various state Governments are very actively involved in making India fully literate.