By Irina Anca Tanase
Each October, 5th, the world celebrates the International Teacchers’ Day. Each autumn, Rotary uses the month of September to remind everyone about the importance of Basic Education and Literacy, while October is dedicated to Community Economic and Development. The two areas of action are not just coincidentaly connected in the Rotary calender, but they are rather strongly linked to eachother, as the poorest regions in the world are also the regions with the lowest rate of literacy
More than 775 million people over the age of 15 are illiterate. Nearly 800 million people live on less than $1.90 a day (you can read more about this here). Numerous Rotary Clubs around the world are fighting to reduce these numbers, but there is still a lot of work to be done.
Oslo International Rotary Club has from its beginning, in 2012, considered that creating access to education as its most important mission. Our main Club projects consists of a Scholarship for very hard working students from a vulnerable environment, studying at The Sylhet Agricultural University of Bangladesh. We are proud to day to say that more than 30 students have continued their higher education because of our support, they are contributing to more educatio and better economic development in their communities. What we are even more proud of, even if we can not take credit for this, is that our students have inspired and supported so many more students to take the chalenge of pursuing an education and becoming change-makers in their communities.
At the same time, we couldn’t have made these things happen without our members: researchers, teachers, entrepreneurs, job creators. So this autumn, we are celebrating the joy of creating hope and making a diffrence through our support for acess to education and economic development, and we are thanking our members and to all of you out there helping someone to finish school and to bring development into their communities. You can find here. Read also the article about Tarin Tabaschum, one of our accomplished Master grade students at SAU.
