8am Visit to Room to Read project funded by Cassils and Wettsteins

Paul Hancock, Patricia Solar, John and I traveled 40 minutes outside of Siem Reap to visit a village school library. For anyone interested in funding child education Room to Read is well positioned in Laos and Cambodia as we know from personal experience.

In Cambodia the Room to Read team has chosen to focus on all of our core programs, except for the School Room Program. They have identified library construction, Khmer language children’s books, and girls’ scholarships as three of the most important improvements we can make to the educational system and have thus chosen to focus much of their work there. The following table highlights our Cambodia team’s success to date:

Room to Read is impacting lives! With over 3.1 million children accessing 763 schools, 7,022 bilingual libraries, 327 new local language children’s titles, and 6,817 girls in our education program we are providing opportunities that change children’s lives and communities throughout the developing world. With your help, we can reach our goal of establishing 11,000 libraries to impact more than 5 million children by 2010″

Source: Room to Read website