Written Statement:

For my biology project, I choose to focus on the illiteracy crisis in the world. When I first started my research, I thought that most of the illiterate people in the world were in third world countries. After a lot of research, I have proven myself wrong there are many illiterate people in the world including America. Literacy is a privilege that everyone should have no matter who they are. The main problem behind illiteracy is that is leads to other major global issues like over population, poverty, crime, disease, and learning disabilities. Illiteracy is also a problem because in some part of the world more than 50% of a community is illiterate. We should be concerned about the illiteracy crisis because many children now are illiterate which will lead to many m ore adults being illiterate in the future. If people are illiterate than they will not be able to work. This problem need to be changed, we need to educate our youth. We need to keep our kids engaged in school, and make sure they are happy. By doing this less children will be illiterate, which would lead to less adults being illiterate. Illiteracy can easily be fixed, we can open more clinic to help adults and children read, and we can get people to donate books supplies and money (which I did).These simple things will help save the lives of so many people, buy giving them the gift of literacy a lot in the world could happen. There are around one billion illiterate adults (persons 15 years old and above) in the world today and that is ashamed, With the public school systems, each child should be able to at least graduate from High School. So if there are other reason why kids are not getting educated, then something needs to change. The law of every child needing to go to school needs to be enforced. It is about time. (http://www.reading.org/downloads/meetings/ILD2007_literacy_facts.pdf) In this website I found out that by teaching mothers to read it decreases the infant mortality, which is not that shocking, but shows that illiteracy just does not affect the person who can not read or write, but their family and friends as well.