Bangladesh

With a gift to Room to Read Bangladesh, you can provide life-changing educational resources to children who face the greatest barriers in gaining a quality education. Every contribution goes toward the most pressing priorities, including:

Literacy

In 2025, a portion of your investment will help open doors for the youngest learners in Bangladesh’s Moulvibazar district. Room to Read is pioneering a critical initiative to improve pre-primary curriculum in partnership with the local government, focusing on igniting children’s passion for literacy and learning. To date, as part of a national education committee, Room to Read has supported the development of culturally responsive book guides and teaching materials that build essential cognitive and language skills for early learners. In 2025, with your support, Room to Read aims to launch these resources across 200 schools in Moulvibazar, reaching pre-primary students who lack access to high-quality early learning experiences. Your support will provide critical resources to implement this locally contextualized curriculum and train educators in child-centered methodologies, building an essential foundation for scaling this work to more young students. 

After years of dedicated work, Room to Read is at a critical turning point in Bangladesh that can ensure every child has access to a school library in the coming years. The Government of Bangladesh has now embraced our library model, marking a pivotal moment in our mission to bring quality reading spaces to students nationwide. To realize this goal, in partnership with Bangladesh’s Department of Primary Education, Room to Read has established inspiring library spaces in 11 Primary Teacher Training Institute-based schools that are now serving as crucial training centers for future teachers and education officials. These model libraries are more than physical spaces—they are powerful demonstration sites that showcase the transformative potential of accessible, engaging reading environments, and are training educators on how to replicate quality libraries and reading activities at their schools. By creating these strategic learning hubs, we are planting the seeds for a nationwide network of classroom libraries that can fundamentally reshape how children experience learning. Your investment will help build upon this work to ensure more educators are learning how to establish and manage quality libraries, and are equipped to nurture a generation of passionate readers.