Today is our founder, John Wood's birthday. Fourteen years after John changed his future after visiting a school in rural Nepal, he now can claim that nearly nine million children's futures have been changed through his work and the work of those who have joined him along the way. So happy birthday John--and thank you for bringing us along in your journey to change the world through education and literacy!

Watch our new video about Room to Read through the eyes of our birthday boy, John Wood, and our co-founder and CEO, Erin Ganju.

If you want to learn more about the history of Room to Read, don't miss John Wood's second book, Creating Room to Read: A Story of Hope in the Battle for Global Literacy, just released yesterday in paperback!