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UNESCO International Literacy Prizes and Literacy Day Celebrations
Focus On Multilingualism
UNESCO
News: 9.02.2019
UNESCO
will celebrate International
Literacy Day on Monday 9 September at its Headquarters in Paris with a
conference and award-giving ceremony for its International Literacy Prizes,
which this year recognize projects from Algeria, Colombia, Indonesia, Italy and
Senegal. The 2019 prizes honour outstanding work relating to this year’s theme:
literacy and multilingualism.
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As
UNESCO leads the celebration of the International Year of Indigenous Languages,
the need to rethink literacy education is all the more pressing considering
that in 2016 only 5% of the world’s estimated 7,000 languages were present on
the Internet and 50 per cent of spoken languages were considered to be in
danger of disappearing.
UNESCO King Sejong Literacy Prize awards for mother-tongue
literacy education and training, sponsored by the Republic of Korea, will be
awarded in a ceremony at 5pm to:
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National
Strategy for Multilingual Literacy programme of Algeria’s
National Adult Literacy and Education Office for its support for mother
tongue-based literacy for adults in two national languages, Tamazight and
Arabic.
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Senegal’s
Textile Fibres and Development
Company (SODEFITEX) for its functional literacy and follow-up vocational
training for farmers in southern Senegal, a community-driven project that
provides literacy classes in three national languages alongside
agriculture-related skills development courses.
UNESCO Confucius Prize for Literacy, supported by the
Government of the People’s Republic of China, rewarding programmes that
benefits rural populations and out-of-school youth, particularly girls and
women, will be given to:
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The
Obras
Escuela programme of Camacol
Antioquia, the Colombian construction industry’s professional organization
in the department of Antioquia, which provides flexible literacy learning in
Spanish and English for building industry workers with limited, or no, previous
schooling in the workplace.
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BASAbali Wiki programme of Indonesia’s
BASAbali group, a multimedia wiki dictionary initiative to preserve and value
local languages alongside national and international tongues, through the
engagement of people in Bali and abroad.
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TELL ME - Theatre for Education and
Literacy Learning of Migrants in Europe programme, managed by the Italian
not-for-profit organization, Nuovo
Comitato il Nobel per i Disabili from Italy.
Also
on 9 September, from 9am to 6pm, UNESCO will host an International Conference
on Literacy and multilingualism at its Headquarters in Paris. The
event will bring together stakeholders and decision-makers from all over the
world to rethink literacy in information rich and increasingly multilingual
societies. READ
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