A few people have asked for a bit more information about Room to Read and why we chose this particular charity.
It all started when my mother gave me a copy of ‘Leaving Microsoft to Change the World’, by John Wood. This book was captivating and echoed similar sentiments that I experienced on my first trip to Nepal and subsequent travel and working in developing nations. I vowed after reading the book that I would find a way to get involved with Room to Read.
Rather than try to explain what makes Room to Read so compelling, I’ve taken some information off of their site that I found useful. You can click through the images below for a fact sheet Room to Read puts out and a video from Frontline outlining what Room to Read has done in Nepal.
http://www.roomtoread.org/media/downloads/fact_sheet.pdf
http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/rough/2007/06/flwrc48.html
