Remember when you used to read?
The average Vietnamese child reads less than 1 book a year.
Less than 8% of Vietnamese children are frequent readers.
In other words, most children in Vietnam don’t read.
Enter..
“Library of Dreams”- a Creative Library Project.
Their goal is to give books, cultural, creative, and artistic activities to children who would normally not have access.
As of May 2023, the project has built 142 libraries in schools across Vietnam helping 46,000 children have access to books & art activities.
As some parents and teachers put it- “Without the project, we wouldn't know when our children would be able to read and be surrounded with so many interesting and useful books.”
(Read the second half again)
After the 40th library..
the team at Library of Dreams realized that some schools could make half the effort.
And since then, 102 libraries have been built with the help of both Library of Dreams and the participating school.
All this makes me wonder..
Maybe the best gifts aren’t the gifts where we do all the work.
