Room to Read Skoll Awardee Profile
Room to Read Skoll Awardee Profile Organization Overview Key Info Social Entrepreneur John Wood Year Awarded 2006 Issue Area Addressed Education Sub Issue Area Addressed Early Childhood to Primary Education, Women's and Girls' Education Countries Served Bangladesh, Cambodia, India, Laos, Nepal, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Tanzania, Vietnam Website http://www.roomtoread.org Twitter handle roomtoread Facebook http://www.facebook.com/roomtoread Youtube http://www.youtube.com/user/Roomtoread About the Organization Founded in 2000 on the belief that World Change Starts with Educated Children®, Room to Read is creating a world free from childhood illiteracy and gender inequality in education. Across the globe, 750 million people—two-thirds of whom are women and girls—still lack basic reading and writing skills. Room to Read believes that education is the most effective tool for solving the world’s greatest challenges, such as poverty, disease, environmental degradation, exploitation and inequality. Through education, young people have the opportunity to gain the skills that enable them to become changemakers and create pathways to solve difficult problems in novel ways. Room to Read is transforming the lives of millions of children in low-income communities by developing their literacy skills and nurturing a love of reading through its Literacy Program, and by supporting girls to build skills to succeed in secondary school and negotiate key life decisions through its Girls’ Education Program. Because Room to Read programs can be replicated, localized and sustained by governments, the organization is able to create change at the systems level. To date, Room to Read has benefited more than 18 million children in 16 countries and 37,000 communities across Bangladesh, Cambodia, Grenada, Honduras, India, Indonesia, Jordan, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, Rwanda, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Tanzania, Vietnam, and Zambia, with plans to reach 40 million children by 2025.
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