1. Illiteracy By Vicky Chan and Shanshan Wu

2. What is Illiteracy? • Illiteracy is the inability to read and write. • There is about 1 billion of non- illiterate adults today. That is 26 % of the world’s population. • 98% of the non-illiterates live in developing countries.

3. Types of Illiteracy • Total Illiteracy: people who cannot read or write at all • Functional Illiteracy: People who can read and write on a limited level • Cultural Illiteracy: People who do not know or understand a common body of facts about one’s nation, state or even hometown. • Professional Illiteracy: People who concerns the language needed for special kinds of work. • The most common types of illiteracy are total and functional illiteracy.

4. What Causes People to have Illiteracy? There are many reasons that cause illiteracy such as: • Poverty • Lack of literacy within a family • Learning disabilities such as dyslexia, central auditory processing disorders and short term memory difficulties. • Health problems that cause absence from school • School system is not working well as it should. • Move from place to place so often that students cannot catch up.

5. Results of IlliteracyWhat had Illiteracy cause us? • Economic Suffering • Low Productivity • Industrial Accidents • Poor Product quality • Political Suffering • Illiterate people often helpless to understand and voice their rights as citizen. They can be powerless to stop their nation from falling into hands of an oppressive or unstable government • Illiteracy costs the US more than $20 billion a year in diminished productivity, lost tax revenues, disability benefit paid in event of injury, and welfare payments.

6. Problem Should we continue to ignore this major global issue that costs economic, cultural and political problems? If not, how can we decrease the number of illiterate people to lower the costs and losses that results from illiteracy?

7. StakeholdersWho affects the Problem?

8. StakeholdersWho is affected? • Illiteracy affects all the people on Earth including us. • For example: Illiteracy decreases the chance of employment; therefore, illiterate people commit crimes such as robbery for living. These victims could be us. • No matter what, the final results will always affect us.