Room to Read
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Room to Read works in collaboration with communities and local governments in developing countries to develop literacy skills and a habit of reading among primary school children, and they also support girls to complete secondary school with the life skills they’ll need to succeed in school and beyond. Their Reading Room program provides libraries to children so they can read and to explore. Their Local Language Publishing program allows children to read books in their mother tongue. Their School Room program gives children a safe place to learn. The Girls’ Education program enables girls to enroll in and stay in school.
Room to Read’s programs have reached more than five million children so far and hopes to improve literacy for 10 million children by 2015.
Over 300 million children around the world do not have access to education and most likely will never learn to read or write. Room to Read believes that all children, regardless of gender or background, have a right to education. By empowering children through this lifelong gift, they see a world in which people are able to realize their full potential.
