Room to Read 55d ago

Our 2025 Annual Report is live! 📚 ✨ Let’s look at our results in literacy… Preliminary results show 16.5 MILLION children benefited from Room to Read’s literacy programming in 2025, bringing us to 55 MILLION children benefited since our founding. With our expertise in building book publishing and content distribution channels, we distributed 1.1 MILLION books in 2025. That’s 45.7 MILLION books distributed throughout our history! And, since our founding, we’ve published a total of 5,166 original and adapted children’s literature titles. Our programming is driven by evidence. Children in our programs read up to 2.5X faster and answer up to 2.6 more comprehension questions than peers in comparison schools. Few organizations can demonstrate this level of improvement, especially among diverse communities around the world. The outcomes are clear. We are driving systemic change — benefiting more children, more quickly, with the skills to pursue lifelong learning and make informed decisions. Explore the full report: roomtoread.org/2025-annual-report