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John Wood, born in 1964 in Hartford, Connecticut, was an executive at Microsoft before a life-changing trip to Nepal inspired him to focus on education. After discovering the lack of resources for Nepalese children, he co-founded Room to Read in 2001, an organization aimed at promoting literacy and gender equality in education. As of July 2012, Room to Read has established over 1,600 schools, distributed 11 million books, and benefitted 6 million children.
Bb valuesventure
- 2. John Wood was born in January in 1964, in Hartford , Connecticut. Where he spent his early childhood. He holds a bachelor's degree from the University of Colorado, and a master's degree in business administration. From 1991 to 1999, John Wood worked as an executive for Microsoft. His positions included Director of Marketing for Australia, Director of Marketing for the Asia-Pacific region and Director of Business Development for Greater China.
- 3. John Wood is an overworked Microsoft executive. He went to Nepal to distress himself. While hiking in the Himalayas, he met a Nepalese Education Recourse Officer who invited him to visit a school in the neighboring village.
- 4. Little did John know that this trip impacted his life forever. In the school, he was surprised that millions of Nepalese children have only a dilapidated schoolroom and has severe shortage of books. He was stunned when he realized the amount of books the school had. Moreover, the books were kept safely under locks as it was so precious and all this is for to protect the books from being touched by the children. This touched his heart thus will touch thousands.
- 5. A year later, Wood returned to the school with 3,000 booksall donated in response to his email appeal to friends and family. Soon thereafter, he left his job at Microsoft entirely to devote himself full-time to Books for Nepal, a side project that would eventually form the foundation for Room to Read. Wood officially co-founded Room to Read in 2001. The organization focuses on literacy and gender equality in education in developing countries. Its programs develop literacy skills and a habit of reading among primary school children, and support girls to complete secondary school with the relevant life skills to succeed in school and beyond. As of July 2012, Room to Read has established over 1,600 schools and 13,500 libraries, distributed 11 million books, and published 707 local- language children's booksbenefiting 6 million children to date.
- 6. CREDITS Information sources: www.google.com, www.roomtoread.org, www.wikepidea.com Team Name: BB49 (Team 10) Group Members: Huang Ziwei Justin Lim Samuel Chiang Lukas Adam