“”I often joke that Room to Read is the biggest children’s publisher you’ve never heard of because your children probably are not reading in the languages that we’re publishing in. But, those children in Vietnam, Sri Lanka, India, Nepal, South Africa, they deserve to have books in their mother tongue just as kids here in America do.”
John Wood says that Room to Read faces huge demand.
“So what drives me is really the idea of our strong local teams at Room to Read should not be in the business of saying ‘no’ or ‘not yet.’ They should be in the business of saying ‘yes.’ Yes to your community having literacy programs. Yes to your girls being empowered by education. Yes to every child having a place in a school that is well run and has really good teachers, and I am not going to give up on the goal.”
Room to Read is expected to reach ten million children by 2015. That is five years earlier than John Wood promised. I’m Avi Arditi.
And I’m Jim Tedder in Washington. On this date in 1927, the most popular song in the world was “born.” Mildred J. Hill of Louisville, Kentucky, wrote “Happy Birthday to You.”
That’s all for this edition of As It is. There are more Learning English programs just ahead, and world news at the beginning of the hour.
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