Our mission is to ensure that every child receives the lifelong gift of education. With the help of the "Oprah Winfrey Show"® we can dream big and reach our goal of establishing 20,000 bilingual libraries by the year 2020.

You can help change the world by donating today. Every dollar donated equals one book donated — $100 dollars equals 100 books — and an opportunity to change the lives of some of the 770 million illiterate people in the world.


With your help, we can distribute 9MM books to children by 2010

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Schools 1,128
Libraries 10,000
Books Published 433
Books Distributed 7.4 million
Girls' Scholarships 8,944
Children Benefited 4.1 million

results updated quarterly

Annual Report 2009

In 2009, Room to Read established six libraries per day and distributed a book every 3 minutes.
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