John Wood, "Creating Room to Read" (Viking Press, 2013)

Summary

In Creating Room to Read: A Story of Hope in the Battle for Global Literacy (Viking Press, 2013), John Wood presents this big idea: you can change the world if want to. The nice thing about John's book is that he doesn't tell you the "theory" of world-changing (though he does discuss "social entrepreneurship"), he tells you how he did using his own experience. John saw that a lot of people around the world couldn't read and created an organization to teach them. This involved building a dedicated team, fund-raising, finding out what his clients--illiterate, impoverished children--wanted, and giving it to them in a flexible way. John's "Room to Read" has built thousands of libraries around the world and taught hundred of thousands of children to read. That's something.

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