I've done reading some of my book that i buy using voucher that i received..there are a lot of book and one book that so interesting is Leaving Microsoft To Change The World by John Wood..This is the synopsis i copied from here..
John Wood’s book Leaving Microsoft To Change The World is his own story about leaving corporate world to start his own non-profit organization Room To Read. This book is full of inspiration, emotions, business strategies, entrepreneurship and human values. A proof of the power of one individual to influence and help the lives of thousands of families and communities especially in the developing world.
John Wood was Microsoft’s Director of Business Development for the Greater China region when he decided to say good bye to the corporate world and enter the world of non-profits by helping the poor children in the developing world to give the lifelong gift of education. The core belief of ‘Room to Read’ is, ‘world change starts with educated children‘.
The defining moment of John Wood’s life had happened when he was trekking in Nepal on a vacation to escape from the work. One day, Wood met Pasupathi, resource person for that province and responsible for providing facilities in the schools of that province. Along with Pasupathi, Wood visited a school, which is supposed to be the biggest school in that area. He could not believe his eyes and was moved by the way school had been operating. He was confronted by the harsh reality that there were no books in the library that a child can read and the class rooms were accommodating more children than they actually can. After interacting with the school headmaster and teachers, he promised them that he would return with books and help the school build a better library. Then the headmaster of the school said, ‘Perhaps, sir, you will someday come back with books.‘ In the book, he shares that these words had really changed the course of his life forever.
An year later, John Wood did exactly what he promised the headmaster and the teachers of that school. With the help of his friends and family, he was able to collect a large number of books and went to Nepal to distribute the books. But, Wood felt the task was not finished. There were literally hundreds of schools with not enough books and few communities did not have schools in the neighborhood and children had to walk for few kilometers to reach a nearby school. He thought, there was something more that he can do to address this issue throughout Nepal.
Room To Read
The following year John left Microsoft and established a non-profit to send books to Nepal.You should read the book to know how this small project to help build a library in rural Nepal school has now become a world famous organization with operations in nine countries in Asia and Africa. Ever since it’s inception, Room to Read has impacted the lives of over 1.3 million children by: constructing schools,establishing libraries, publishing local language titles for children books, girl scholarships and establishing computer labs.
It's hard for us to leave something that make us feel comfortable for the future but this John Wood is one who have founded Room To Read to help people in Nepal to change their fortune. He know that without knowledge, their society can't change their life to more comfortable. So he take a chance to help Nepal community to change their life for a better. This book also have a lot of good and lesson for us that we must help the needy people so there are no people will left behind..
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