Most recently, we expanded our technical assistance work with the Ministry of Education and Training (MoET) and introduced our school library model at scale. Our team inaugurated nearly 700 libraries across our provinces in 2019, the highest number of libraries we have reached in one academic year. The project uses an innovative, three-tiered "I do, We do, You do approach," which incorporates the MoET’s partnership through demonstration libraries, collaboration libraries and expansion libraries respectively. This partnership model ensures that multiple stakeholders from communities, governments and schools are passionately working to develop the reading culture.
In 2019, the MoET also agreed on a three-year partnership with Room to Read to pilot a school-based mentoring model in seven schools. This pilot project will be evaluated in 2021 to prepare for scale. We are proud to see that our programs and projects are successful across Vietnam in 35 out of 63 provinces, and we will continue to support children on their educational and life journeys.