Global Footprint and Long-Term Engagement;
Community Engagement and Local Partnerships;
Scale and Sustainability;
Diversified and Engaged Funding Base;
TIME Asia's Heroes Award
Library of Congress Literacy Award, Rubenstein Prize: 2014
Great Nonprofits Top-Rated Award: 2013, 2014
The Global Journal's “Top 100 NGOs”: 2012 & 2013.
(UNESCO) Confucius Prize for Literacy: 2011.
To transform the lives of millions of children in Asia & Africa (developning country);
To establish gender equality in education;
To develop literacy skill;
To create a habit of reading among primary school children;
To ensure girls have the skills & support needed to complete their secondary education;
9. A Birds Eye view of Room to Read:FACT DESCRIPTION
Full name Room to Read
Short name RtR
Founded 2000
Type Non-profit organization
Industry Education
Headquarters San Francisco, California, United
States
Key people John Wood (Founder and
Executive Chairman)
Erin Ganju (Co-Founder and
Chief Executive Officer)
Dinesh Shrestha (Co-Founder
and Director of Field
Operations)Primary Work Building literacy and gender
equality
Belief World Change Starts with
Educated Children
Interesting fact The program employs local
authors to write children’s books
in the mother tongue.
Ranked 3rd among the NGO’s
Rating Four Star
10. Core operating principles
Global Footprint and Long-Term
Engagement;
Community Engagement and Local
Partnerships;
Scale and Sustainability;
Diversified and Engaged Funding Base;
11. Awards & Recognition of
Room to Read
TIME Asia's Heroes Award
Library of Congress Literacy Award,
Rubenstein Prize: 2014
Great Nonprofits Top-Rated Award:
2013, 2014
The Global Journal's “Top 100 NGOs”:
2012 & 2013.
(UNESCO) Confucius Prize for Literacy:
2011.
12. 2) Objectives:
To transform the lives of millions of
children in Asia & Africa (developning
country);
To establish gender equality in education;
To develop literacy skill;
To create a habit of reading among
primary school children;
To ensure girls have the skills & support
needed to complete their secondary
education;
13. CONT….
To work in collaboration;
Nurture a culture of life-long reading and
learning among children.
Increase access to culturally and locally
relevant reading materials for children.
To Publish local books.
To develop the education system of rural
community.
21. Objectives:
Improve state language reading Skills of
primary school children.
Improve the reading habit of primary
school children.
To increase usages of supplementary
teaching learning and reading materials;‐
To increase aware;
22. CONT….
To make Primary school children
independent readers.
To build a habit of reading;
To ensure the girl’s enrolment;
To help the students to get computer
literacy providing adequate facilities.
23. Target Groups
Children (–15)
Youth (15–24)
Adults (+15)
Out-of-school Children and Youth
Marginalized Groups
Rural-based School Children and Youth
30. Shortcomings of the programs
run by RtR
♣Firstly- to cope with;
♣Secondly- countries are so back warded;
♣Thirdly- tough to print standard different
books in mother tongue;
♣Fourthly- tough to make reading habit;
♣Fifthly- inability of the sufficient money.
34. ATLAS:-
Fact Description
Launch of operations 2008
Program Started 2009
No. of Regions where it work 4
No of running Program 5
Up coming Program 2
NGO Partner · SHARP and
· EC Bangladesh.
Room to Read office Dhaka
Office Address 6/3 Lalmatia , Block D, Dhaka.
Regions where it work Brahmanbaria;
Sirajganj;
Natore;
37. 1/ Literacy program:
Goal
The primary school children will be
independent readers.
Objectives:
Improve Bangla Reading Skills of primary
school children.
Innovate ways to reinforce effective
Bengali Language teaching learning in‐
government or government supported
primary schools.
38. CONT….
literacy program is designed for the
primary school students irrespective of
their gender and focuses on the need of
learning skill development among the
students so that reading habit can be
promoted amongst them.
Through this programe room to read
provide necessary training and materials to
the teachers .
Improve the reading habit of primary
39. 2) Girls education program:
Objectives:
The GEP is aimed at the secondary
school girl students who are very
vulnerable group most often coming to
school they drop out in the rural areas of
Bangladesh.
The aim is to get the girls in the
secondary school to at least pass HSC by
providing them with necessary supports
40.
41. 3) Book publishing in Bangali
language:
Room to read publishes books in
Bengali language which keeps a coherence
with psychology and temperament of the
students.
The books are carefully written making
compatible with the students age
,intelligence and literacy of the students
The books are colorfully illustrated.
42. Examples of some books:
Namti pakhir tuntuni
Patar gari
Doyel o jonaki etc.
43. 5) Classroom library activities
in Govt. primary schools:
objectives: to ensure that more primary
school children become independent
readers.
Services: 2325 classes in 465 schools have
been established.
Activities: training of teachers, monitoring
and support strategy,establishing libraries
and library management.
45. CONT….
Filling the gaps with material
development;
Strategic thinking and innovation;
Mentoring and life skills;
The phonics-based instructional design;
46. 7) Lesson to be learnt:
Teachers, mentors and successful older
peers are highly influential in forming
secondary and tertiary education.
Close collaboration is critical to ensure that
Room to Read is producing high quality
work, especially among literacy experts,
librarians and teachers, writers and
illustrators, and government officials.
The process of sustainability is another
lesson which could be applicable for our
education system.
47. CONT….
Room to Read give main focus on:
The “Holistic approach” of implementing
educational program which are vastly used
in Room to Read is good to follow for our
education
The process of development learning
process should be followed for the context
of our country and I think it would be
48. 9) Reference:
Annual report of room to read 2012
Annual report of room to read 2013
Room to Read History FINAL.pdf
http://www.roomtoread.org/page.aspx?
pid=160
room-to-read.pdf
www.roomtoread.org/page.aspx?pid10
Room-to-Read-Customer-Project.pdf
http://www.wikipedia.org/page.aspxbid=
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