Room To Read
Target 7,500 subscribers / $150,000
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ISSUE:
Developing nations like Nepal, Cambodia and Vietnam face illiteracy rates as high as 70 percent and wildly inadequate educational facilities. Worse yet, educational opportunities are severely gender biased; of the 850 million illiterate people in the developing world, almost 70 percent are women.
IDEA:
Room to Read partners with local communities throughout the developing world to establish schools, libraries and other educational infrastructure. By intervening early in their lives, Room to Read empowers children to use the lifelong gift of education to ultimately improve socioeconomic conditions for their families, communities, countries and future generations. Through the opportunities that only an education can provide, Room to Read strives to break the cycle of poverty, one child at a time.
IMPACT:
Heavily results-oriented, Room to Read has built 200 schools and 2,500 libraries, and has funded more than 1,750 long-term scholarships for girls. Additionally, the organization has published 77 new local language children's book titles and donated more than 1.2 million children's books. In response to local demand, Room to Read has also established more than 60 computer and 25 language labs.
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