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Exciting news: #SheCreatesChange is coming to YouTube! Join us for a live global premiere on October 11, #InternationalDayoftheGirl, as we celebrate gender equality and women’s empowerment with Keya, Yashika, Dewmini, Naifat, Diksha and Trang, six remarkable girls from Room to Read’s Girls’ Education Program, as they confront challenges like harassment, food scarcity and early marriage to create a more gender-equal world. Subscribe to our YouTube channel today to ensure you receive all notifications leading up to the live event! 📽️: https://lnkd.in/gX_DA9sZ

TOMORROW: #SheCreatesChange LIVE premiere on #InternationalDayoftheGirl Get ready to be inspired as we share the heroic stories of Dewmini, Keya, Trang, Diksha, Yashika and Naifat with the world during the global premiere of our award-winning animated short film #SheCreatesChange on YouTube.     Need another reason to tune in? We’ve got it: Prajakta Koli, creator, actor, climate activist and voice of Dewmini’s animated character in the film, will be in the chat, ready to answer your questions! 🎉👏   Join us in making this premiere a catalyst for change: youtube.com/RoomtoRead   #SheCreatesChange #GirlsEducation #InternationalDayoftheGirl #SocialImpact #GlobalEducation

Prepare to be inspired: #SheCreatesChange will premiere LIVE on YouTube in three days! ✨🌏 That means you have just three days to... ➡️ Subscribe to Room to Read’s YouTube channel (linked below) to stay notified as we countdown to our live global premiere event ➡️ Mark your calendar for October 11, #InternationalDayoftheGirl2024, and prepare to be inspired ➡️ Share this post with your professional networks to help ensure ALL GIRLS have access to a quality education and the skills they need to create lasting change for themselves and their communities Join us as we celebrate gender equality and women’s empowerment through education. Together, we can create a more equitable future for all. Subscribe now! 📽️: www.youtube.com/Roomtoread #SheCreatesChange #GenderEquality #GirlsEducation

Happy #WorldTeacherDay! We know how we teach is just as important as what we teach. That’s why we’ve developed undergraduate lectures and curricula for university students who are on track to become teachers at the University of Johannesburg and the University of Pretoria in South Africa! What will these soon-to-be teachers learn? ✏️ Lecture content and curriculum covers a range of topics: 📖 Reading motivation + reading components 📖️ Developing a scope + sequence 📖️ Text decodability 📖 Book curation + story writing + more! Equally exciting: content is offered in IsiZulu, Sepedi, Tshivenda, Setswana, Xitsonga and IsiNdebele, making room for future educators to access the training and resources they need to nurture strong literacy skills in all children across South Africa. 🇿🇦 Through our partnerships with universities, this lecture series will become a model that can be adapted for teacher-training programs across the country. Discover more in our 2023 annual report: https://bit.ly/4gRWoM7

Learning requires interaction. Strong literacy skills are built through listening and observation, direct instruction, practice, and trial and error. Children benefit from role models like teachers and librarians who demonstrate these skills. It is with this in mind that our literacy team in Sri Lanka partnered with the Central Provincial Ministry of Education to support the development of pre-school teacher trainings focused specifically on the power of reading aloud. Trainings underscore the crucial role that interactive, teacher-led oral readings play in helping children build vocabulary, improve comprehension, and, importantly, develop social-emotional skills like problem-solving, perspective-taking and emotional-relating — skills that all children need to learn. By initiating a practice of group read-alouds in pre-primary school settings, we are making room for young children across Sri Lanka to enter the early grades with a strong foundation for learning. Learn more in our annual report: https://okt.to/84GdfN

"[Vilas Dhar, President of The Patrick J. McGovern Foundation] shared how his grandmother reading under a kerosene lamp in the bathroom in the middle of the night was a foundational childhood memory. This memory served as a poignant reminder of why Room to Read exists, and it was from this foundation that Vilas helped us understand how AI can be used to accelerate both our mission and community involvement." Reflections from Room to Read CEO Dr. Geetha Murali from her powerful week in New York alongside the United Nations General Assembly and #TheSummitoftheFuture2024. 🌍 🏫 📚

Room to Read is guiding national textbook revisions in Uganda! How? Let’s back up. After successfully adapting and distributing Room to Read storybooks across two districts, and supporting educators in these districts with library training, Room to Read and local NGO partner the Reading Association of Uganda (RAU) collaborated with government partners to develop Grade 1 teaching materials. Pleased with the quality of the content, the government requested that Room to Read and RAU work together to fast-track a Grade 1 instruction book that would inform nation-wide revisions to early grade textbooks. Room to Read and RAU collaborated with local teachers and school administrators, illustrators and designers to create instruction books and accompanying educator guides in two major local languages — Luganda and Runyankore-Rukiga — developing the initial content in just three weeks. Learn more how Room to Read is making room to scale our literacy programming around the world, benefiting more children, more quickly: https://okt.to/hizrLN

We have something big to celebrate! 👏 We have successfully surpassed a significant goal set in our Vision 2025 strategic plan: to benefit at least 40 million children worldwide by 2025. Room to Read has now benefited more than 45 MILLION CHILDREN in historically low-income communities around the world, making room for these children to develop literacy and life skills in a dignified and gender-equal way. That's 3 children every minute over the course of our 25-year history. Behind this milestone are decades of strategic program development, evaluation, innovation — and your steadfast support. Thank you for being part of our story as we accelerate and expand our programs to ensure all children have room to read, learn and grow — creating lasting change. Learn more in our 2023 annual report: https://okt.to/cJAjsy

Today is the final day to see Room to Read’s animated short film, #SheCreatesChange, in theater at the Quad Cinema in #NewYork! Don’t let this special opportunity to celebrate #genderequality and #worldchange pass you by. If you’re in #NYC, reserve your tickets NOW to today’s final showtime: https://okt.to/AvUaxY 🎞🎞🎞 Nexus Studios Martha Adams Moonshine Pictures Cineflix Media Inc. Geetha Murali Brenda Chapman Jill Culton Julia Parfitt Freida Pinto Dilshad Vadsaria Prajakta Koli ‪ Charithra Chandran Amita Suman Adhir Kalyan Amrita Acharia Quyen Ngo Aly Casas Karun Mungai Bonnie Forsyth Neeraja Raj Hannah Lau-Walker Siqi Song Prashanti Aswani Claudia Chinyere Akole brain audio

"Since the inception of the library, children have been drawn to the colorful and engaging world of age-appropriate books. Even children as young as second graders, who are still decoding letters, are reading and comprehending with astonishing proficiency." – Yashoda, a Room to Read librarian in Nepal At Room to Read, we know that libraries help children build both reading skills and reading habits — habits like independent reading and checking out books to take home to share with family. In 2023 alone, children around the world checked out more than 10 MILLION BOOKS from Room to Read libraries! 🎉 📚 That's an average of more than 13 books checked out by every child currently benefiting from Room to Read's literacy programming. You can help Room to Read fill more library shelves with more books for more children to enjoy at school and at home. Learn how: https://okt.to/q2j9t0