IRA Celebrates International Literacy Day With D.C. Event, UNESCO Award

U.S. Newswire, September, 2007

To: NATIONAL EDITORS

Contact: Margie Bell of International Reading Association, 1-202- 624-8800, mbell@reading.org

NEWARK, Del., Sept. 7 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The International Reading Association and the National Geographic Society are co- hosting a celebration of International Literacy Day on Tuesday, September 11, from 10:00 a.m. until noon at 1145 17th Street NW, Washington, DC 20036. Linda Gambrell, president of the International Reading Association and professor at Clemson University, will speak about literacy as a human right, as will John Bul Dau, a Sudanese Lost Boy featured in National Geographics documentary, God Grew Tired of Us.

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