World Teachers' Day

This year World Teachers Day marked the 20th anniversary of the 1966 ILO/Recommendation Concerning the Status of teachers. This year's theme is "Valuing Teachers, Improving their Status". It was estimated that in 2030, 3.2 million more teachers would be required to gain universal primary education and around 5.1 million more for the purpose to achieve universal lower secondary education. Today around 1.4 million teachers are missing in classroom due to which nearly 250 million children are deprived from the basic skills of reading and writing. 

The international community needs to stand united to support teachers worldwide, especially in countries with the highest number of out-of-school children. 

Sana Samad
A student of Pakistan