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- 1. LITERACY The ability to read and write Case study on: John Wood
- 2. INTRODUCTION • Founded in 2000 by: John Wood • Left his job to pursue the project. • To allow every child have access to some form of education. • They achieve this goal by establishing school libraries, building schools, publishing local-language children's books and training teachers on literacy education.
- 3. INTRODUCTION • Seeing the faces of the children with the books convinced John to leave the corporate world and devoted himself to quit his executive position with Microsoft and started Room to Read • John himself donated 3000 books to his organisation
- 4. HISTORY • The company started building libraries for schools in some parts of Asia and Africa • However, John recognized the need to expand the scope to girls in the developing world where they are overlooked in the educational system due to cultural bias
- 5. IMPACT • Room To Read started to enable girls to participate in the education system in some parts of the world.
- 6. IMPACT Schools 1,556 Libraries 13,599 Books Published 707 Books Distributed 11.5 million Girls' Education Participants 17,810 Children Benefited 6.7 million
- 7. CREDITS AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS • http://www.roomtoread.org/page.aspx?pid=410 Team members: SGT Joel LCP Nicholas LCP Jethro PTE Zhao Xuan