Room to read

WELLCOME TO OURWELLCOME TO OUR
PRESENTATIONPRESENTATION

☺PRESENTED BY:-PRESENTED BY:-
GROUP-1GROUP-1
RAHUL CHANDRA SHAHARAHUL CHANDRA SHAHA
ANKHI RANIANKHI RANI
MD. SHAMIM HOSSAINMD. SHAMIM HOSSAIN

1) Prologue
 Full Name: Room to Read
 Logo:
 Country of Origin:
 United States of America
 First work started in Nepal

Number of Countries Served:
 Room to Read is serving communities in
ten countries in Asia and Africa:

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

Core operating principles
Global Footprint and Long-Term
Engagement;
Community Engagement and Local
Partnerships;
Scale and Sustainability;
Diversified and Engaged Funding Base;

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.

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;

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.

IT’S NOW RAHUL’S TURN
2ND
PHASE

3) Major area of services:
 Establishing school libraries,
 Building schools,
 Global engagement;

CONT….
 Financial support;
 Books distribution.
 Publishing local-language children's
books,
 Training teachers on literacy education;
 School infrastructure and library;
 Reading & Writing instruction;
 Initial support;

OTHER EDUCATIONAL
PROGRAM
 Teacher Training & Support
 Local Language Publishing Programme

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;

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.

Target Groups
Children (–15)
Youth (15–24)
Adults (+15)
Out-of-school Children and Youth
Marginalized Groups
Rural-based School Children and Youth

CONT….
Women
Indigenous Population
Prisoners
Adult Basic Education (ABE)
Administrators, instructors and teachers

 School room
 Computer room
 Reading room
 Classroom library activities

Girl’s education program;

CONT....
Local language publishing;
Book Publication.

Outcomes:
 A Snapshot Profile of Outcome of RtR:

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.

5) Educational
activities in
Bangladesh

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;

IT’S NOW ShamIm’S TURN
3rd
PHASE

Room to Read’s educational
program in BD

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.

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

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

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.

Examples of some books:
 Namti pakhir tuntuni
Patar gari
Doyel o jonaki etc.

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.

6) Anything extraordinary/
special/ worthwhile:
 Interesting fact;
 Venerable corporations;
 Uses Long-term, holistic approach;
 Provide procure child-sized furniture;
 Making phonics fun:

CONT….
 Filling the gaps with material
development;
 Strategic thinking and innovation;
 Mentoring and life skills;
 The phonics-based instructional design;

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.

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

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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