Mission

Room to Read is an innovative organization dedicated to promoting and enabling global education. Since its founding in 2000, the organization has impacted over three million children in Asia and Africa through its network of over 700 schools and 7,000 libraries filled with more than five million English- and local language children's books, and through its long-term scholarship support of over 7,000 girls. Currently, Room to Read is providing educational opportunities to children and communities throughout Bangladesh, Cambodia, India, Laos, Nepal, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Vietnam and Zambia. By 2010, Room to Read hopes to improve literacy for five million children by establishing over 10,000 libraries and distributing nearly nine million children's books.