About 880 Million people of the world are illiterate. This means, they are not able to, to read a book or sign their names, and far from, to use or understand an application form a computer. But the content of leaflets, manuals, the theater program or the daily newspaper remains illiterate hidden. Not being able to read and write, is in a fixed on literacy society remains a big taboo. We accept, that they live in greater poverty than those, which can, and her health will be worse than necessary.

More than 130 Million children in developing countries have no access to schooling and millions of others attend schools, where they hardly get education. You all is a basic human right denied: the right to education, which is held in a variety of arrangements, of the 50 Year old Declaration of Human Rights up to the Convention on the Rights of the Child.

When illiteracy is not only an issue of the Third World. Because estimated 45 to 90 Millions live on in EU countries. In Austria, there are officially 300.000 People, which can neither read nor write. but experts estimate the actual number of illiterates in this country twice a. But these are not the only 5 percent of children, can not in fact read and write, and we know from PISA. Up to 600.000 Austrians all ages are virtually illiterate, and it is by far not only migrants, but many people with German mother tongue. continue reading