Let Us Join the Movement and Take Responsibility of Atleast One Illiterate Person.

We were the only nation to shed blood for a language and taking its hand we gained our independence. But sadly even after 60 of the Language movement and 40 years after our independence; we still could not make our mother tongue in a written form available to everyone. Most of the country’s population is still illiterate. Recent statistics has shown only 54.8% of the population are literate (Source: 2010, Primary and Mass Literacy Ministry). With this huge percentage of the illiterate people, development of Bangladesh would not be possible. We need to spread the light of education to them and it is only possible through volunteerism of the youth.

                Mass literacy means primary sense of literacy for everyone. Education should not be made available within the lucky few people. It should be within everyone’s reach despite their social or economic positions. The ones for whom mainstream education system cannot be adapted, mass education is the solution to their problems.

                Through education or mass education our thinking processes becomes more enhanced and we begin to understand art and culture in a way people would not have thought about before. This is the reason we encourage people all over the country to join this movement. Through volunteerism we are trying to make it a nationwide movement. Through this movement’s motive is to reach to all those illiterate people and make them truly know how to read and write. By literacy we are not just meaning their signatures but actually know how to read and write. We have a specific path that we follow as a part of all the work we do and following our guidance and trainings, it is possible for a person to know how to read and write within 2 months.

                Education plays a very vital role for the nation’s development. Education created a more capable work force for the country. And it is the reason the world values the importance of the education. Bangladesh is developing country and to bring about any big change in its development. But even now a lot of the people do not have the primary educational background. As a result we cannot go forward in terms of development and gradually the intellectual and cultural development is being destroyed. We Bangladeshis are mostly known as a nation of cheap labor.

                We have earned the name of the Bengal Tigers in many other sectors apart from sports. But for any education movement or for development we were not able to do so. According to Millennium Declaration, within 2015 Bangladesh has promised to remove illiteracy.

                For this reason beside the government, everyone who had the opportunity to get an education should take on the responsibility. By uniting everyone, through volunteerism we can make this a movement that can make the whole nation know how to read and write because without it the future of the country is bleak. Our history tells us that we have achieved a lot through our sense of nationalism and volunteerism and staying within the same path, we need volunteerism to shed away the curse of illiteracy. Apart from that we are in debt with all that the community and society has done for us.

                Let’s come together and at least take the responsibility of one illiterate person. By giving him/her the sense of letters we can play a part in establishing this truth.