Celebrating the Silver Jubilee today, thanks to the initiative brought to UNESCO by Bangladesh in the early noughties.
Community is built on culture, which is communicated in a variety of ways, but most especially through language, which is the fundamental building block to education and development.
Knowledge history and skills can be learnt, transferred and preserved across cultures using language.
There are pros and cons to globalization but the benefits of modern day technology and multiculturalism provide avenues to learn new things about different cultures, even providing opportunities to become multi-linguistic and more so inclusive in community wth others.
REMEC has had a long history of language learning with the ESOL & African and Minority Ethnic language classes teaching English, Igbo, Yoruba and Swahili, supporting migrant and local residents in Lewisham and Southwark to learn the local language and improve their skills and also preserve their cultural heritage.
The 25th anniversary of International Mother Language Day celebrates a quarter-century of efforts to preserve linguistic diversity and promote mother tongues. This milestone emphasizes the importance of language preservation in safeguarding cultural heritage, improving education, and fostering more peaceful societies.
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