Meet the scholars
Every girl we work with has a story. A financial scholarship removes barriers and supports talented girls to reach their potential, lift up their families and help future generations.
Prem Kumari
“I want to be a nurse,” she said to John Wood during his visit to her small home near Pokhara, Nepal, “but my father is gone and my mother does not make enough money filling sandbags by the river”. Impressed by her drive and ambitions, John pledged to help her attain her dreams.
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HAWAY DUM
Haway is the oldest of 9 children in a poor rural family. She was supported through high school by the Room to Read Girls’ Education Program, and with a modest scholarship underwritten by a visitor to her school, she became the first girl from her village to attend university. She earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Environmental Science and is now studying for her Master’s Degree in Germany.
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TAY THI NGUYEN
Tay Thi overcame extreme poverty to become the first in her family to complete primary school. She worked her way through college with a combination of scholarship money and part-time jobs. She now teaches English to hundreds of children in a government school in the Mekong Delta, along with entrepreneurial pursuits like a coffee shop she runs with her younger brother.
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SUCCESS STORIES
Through private capital contributed by John Wood and various friends of Room to Read, we have tested and fine-tuned our model over the last seven years in Cambodia, India, Nepal and Vietnam.
