{"id":1859,"date":"2022-09-26T05:05:29","date_gmt":"2022-09-26T05:05:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dg-newsletter2223.rid3450.org\/?p=1859"},"modified":"2022-09-28T03:27:21","modified_gmt":"2022-09-28T03:27:21","slug":"september-is-basic-education-and-literacy-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dg-newsletter2223.rid3450.org\/?p=1859","title":{"rendered":"September Is Basic Education and Literacy Month"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-large-font-size eplus-wrapper wp-block-paragraph\">By PP Thomas Chan, RC of Kingspark HK<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full eplus-wrapper\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"http:\/\/dg-newsletter2223.rid3450.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Parents-Just-Cant-Win.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1861\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dg-newsletter2223.rid3450.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Parents-Just-Cant-Win.png 1024w, https:\/\/dg-newsletter2223.rid3450.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Parents-Just-Cant-Win-500x333.png 500w, https:\/\/dg-newsletter2223.rid3450.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Parents-Just-Cant-Win-768x512.png 768w, https:\/\/dg-newsletter2223.rid3450.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Parents-Just-Cant-Win-382x254.png 382w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"eplus-wrapper wp-block-paragraph\">Basic education and literacy is one of The Rotary Foundation\u2019s seven areas of focus.&nbsp;It is essential for <strong><em>reducing poverty, improving health, encouraging community and economic development, and promoting peace.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized coblocks-animate eplus-wrapper\" data-coblocks-animation=\"slideInBottom\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/dg-newsletter2223.rid3450.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/wordpress09_01.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1862\" width=\"372\" height=\"133\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dg-newsletter2223.rid3450.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/wordpress09_01.jpg 1017w, https:\/\/dg-newsletter2223.rid3450.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/wordpress09_01-500x179.jpg 500w, https:\/\/dg-newsletter2223.rid3450.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/wordpress09_01-768x275.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dg-newsletter2223.rid3450.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/wordpress09_01-382x137.jpg 382w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 372px) 100vw, 372px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"eplus-wrapper wp-block-paragraph\">The Rotary Foundation considers activities targeting the following to be within the scope of the basic education and literacy area of focus:<\/p>\n\n\n<ul class=\"eplus-wrapper wp-block-list eplus-styles-uid-8a815d\"><li>Access to quality basic primary and secondary education;<\/li><li>Educating adults in literacy;<\/li><li>Providing training in teaching literacy, curriculum development, and school administration;<\/li><li>Strengthening educational experience through improved materials and facilities;<\/li><li>Community management of education systems;<\/li><li>Vocational training teams supporting the above activities;<\/li><li>School desk purchases, when accompanied by a detailed and verifiable plan to improve basic education and literacy;<\/li><li>Scholarships for graduate-level study in programs related to basic education and literacy.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n<p class=\"eplus-wrapper wp-block-paragraph\">According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/unesdoc.unesco.org\/ark:\/48223\/pf0000379875\">UNESCO Global Education Monitoring Report 2021\/2022<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n<ul class=\"eplus-wrapper wp-block-list eplus-styles-uid-b8584f\"><li>If all women completed primary education, there would be 66% fewer maternal deaths.<\/li><li>A child born to a mother who can read is 50% more likely to survive past the age of five.<\/li><li>If all students in low-income countries left school with basic reading skills, 171 million people could be lifted out of poverty, which would be equivalent to a 12% cut in world poverty.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n<p class=\"eplus-wrapper wp-block-paragraph\">In view of the above, more than 15 Clubs of District 3450 have been involved in Global Grant projects under this Area of Focus since 2014. Among them, 8 of them have played the role of Host Partners. To showcase their excellent work, the following pages summarize the Global Grant projects with District 3450 Clubs as Host Partners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"eplus-wrapper wp-block-paragraph\">With so many initiatives related to \u201cBasic Education &amp; Literacy\u201d, it\u2019s time for your Club to apply for the Global Grant to support your own project to do good in the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By PP Thomas Chan, RC of Kingspark HK Basic education and li &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1988,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","editor_plus_copied_stylings":"{}","footnotes":""},"categories":[31,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-newsletter-2022-september","category-highlight"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dg-newsletter2223.rid3450.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dg-newsletter2223.rid3450.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dg-newsletter2223.rid3450.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dg-newsletter2223.rid3450.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dg-newsletter2223.rid3450.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1859"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/dg-newsletter2223.rid3450.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2002,"href":"https:\/\/dg-newsletter2223.rid3450.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1859\/revisions\/2002"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dg-newsletter2223.rid3450.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dg-newsletter2223.rid3450.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dg-newsletter2223.rid3450.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dg-newsletter2223.rid3450.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}