Illiteracy

Today has been a stressful day for me, I've been going to the market place to get things for my mum and for myself also since I'm literally the only one at home and it will be extremely stressful for her to go to the market and get all things herself. On getting things at the market, I turned back and saw some kids not up to my age carrying out some hard works, they're practically labouring for their daily bread and I was feeling for them because the heavy loads they were lifting left and right like it was some wool, I couldn't do any of that then I was like "hmm, this is sad" and I shook my head, that was when I thought of writing this article

Illiteracy is said to be the inability to read and write and it is also the lack of knowledge or ignorance in a particular subject. Ignorance is more like a weapon that is used to brainwash some people into doing things they never intended to do and this has wrecked the society as a whole, Illiteracy has lead lot of people to death, exposure to things at a younger age which they're not supposed to be exposed to and many more.

Illiteracy has caused some irreversible effects in lot of people life and I'll be listing some out

Effects of Illiteracy

Child labor: This is the exploitation of children through any form of work which deprives them of their childhood, interferes with their regular school and is morally and mentally harmful. As a parent who's not educated and can easily be swindled by smart people, once they tell the parent their children will be doing easy job and they'll pay them high amount of money the parent won't think about any other thing either what kind of job the kid would do or where will the kid work, they won't think about all that because money is mentioned and they're not educated to know all these can't be truly possible, they'll set the kids free and let the kids go to work a work of a 30 year old man. This will make the child exposed to things they're not suppose to be exposed to and it sometimes creates kids who will end up becoming terrorist and kids who always engage in social vices.

Human trafficking: As we've all seen on TV and in movies how women and children are being sold as slaves to either work as a prostitute or drug dealer. Women and kids are mostly sold because men are a bit strong and can easily fight their way through any gang of people who wants to sell them. People are being sold same way they come to meet people for child labor, they'll come and tell them they're taking their kids abroad for a scholarship and they'll pay the parents huge amount of money, in no way will any opportunity as such come because there's nothing free in this world, but an illiterate parent won't know this and would happily give out their children for fake scholarship and after about 2 to 3 months, they will stop sending money to the parents but the kids abroad will have their life on the line doing all sort of hard job and all.

Stagnant movement of the society: This is based more on ignorance, even people who are literate cause the society to be stagnant due to their level of ignorance. As it is mostly said "a literate man is also sometimes an ignorant man". When people are planning for the betterment of the society at large, a particular person will be against it because he doesn't have idea of it and he's not ready to learn about it and this brings about confusion and things won't go as planned. We have lot of them in our community, they're always the ones who are against every single plan that comes up, they're like the devil in disguise because they're always against every plan to move forward and this particular set of people are mostly the illiterate because most educated literate know what next to do to make the society move forward. Because of their ignorance self, they'll go against every plan and the plan won't he initiated hence the society won't move forward.

Closing Thoughts

In our community or society, we should endeavor to educate the elderly ones and make them literate to a particular level so they won't fall for all this scam easily and this should in a way end lot of social vices and move the country forward.

I'm deeply sorry if this article isn't making lot of sense, I'm exhausted from today's stress and I hope you enjoyed what you read.