In 1998, John Wood, an executive at Microsoft, took a trip to Nepal that would change his life and the lives of countless children forever. During his 18 day trek he visited a school with 70-80 children crammed into a small room with dirt floors and only a few books. He was so depressed by what he saw that he decided to return to the school with books for a new library. In the next few months he collected thousand of books and eventually quit his job at Microsoft to devote all of his time to this project and the non-profit he started called Room to Read. So far he has distributed almost 3 million books, built 287 schools, established 3,600 libraries, and funded over 2,000 scholarships. He has also started local language publishing programs to provide books for children in their native languages. His goal is to build 20,000 new libraries by the year 2020.
Here is a link to this wonderful organization: http://www.roomtoread.org/
Every dollar donated provides 1 book.
He has also written a book called Leaving Microsoft to change the world : an entrepreneur's odyssey to educate the world's children, which was published in 2006 by HarperCollins and is available at HCPL.
I saw him on Oprah last week and she has also put a link to his organization on her website.
Here is a link to this wonderful organization: http://www.roomtoread.org/
Every dollar donated provides 1 book.
He has also written a book called Leaving Microsoft to change the world : an entrepreneur's odyssey to educate the world's children, which was published in 2006 by HarperCollins and is available at HCPL.
I saw him on Oprah last week and she has also put a link to his organization on her website.
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