Ex Microsoft Exec gives books to nearly eight million children

Kudos to John Wood for helping children around the world, "Read Study and Learn about every thing important in their lives."

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Few career-changing, happiness-seekers have affected as many lives as John Wood, the American poster boy for down-shifting to do something meaningful.

Since leaving his job as Microsoft’s China business development director in 1999 and dedicating his life to improving global literacy, the New York-based Wood has put books in the hands of more than 7.8 million children in 10 countries in Asia and Africa.

He’s done it through a charity he created called Room to Read (www.roomtoread.org).

In 12 years, it has built more than 14,600 libraries and 1,500 schools, distributed 12 million books, published 723 books in local languages and provided scholarships for more than 19,000 girls with donations that now are about $40 million a year."

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