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John Wood, “Creating Room to Read” (Viking Press, 2013)
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John Wood, “Creating Room to Read” (Viking Press, 2013)
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33 minutes
Released:
Feb 4, 2013
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Podcast episode
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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.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Released:
Feb 4, 2013
Format:
Podcast episode
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