Judith's Reading Room is a 501(c)3 organization founded in 2010 to enrich lives and societies by proactively encouranging freedom through literacy.
101 LIBRARIES in 22 COUNTRIES

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Judith's Reading Room's 2020 Virtual Freedom Through Literacy Celebration
Saturday, September 26th
The Freedom Through Literacy Award, now in its 6th year, has disbursed
$38,500 in prize money, honoring 35 individual champions of literacy in the
United States, the Philippines, Bhutan, Pakistan, Rwanda, Cambodia, Mexico, Australia, Zimbabwe and Greece.

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Camel Named ‘Bright’ Delivers Books
to Children in Hard to Reach Villages
October 29, 2020 — Today, Judith’s Reading Room announces its 101st library — the first-ever Judith’s Reading Room mobile library to utilize a camel to deliver books to children. The camel driver, Murad, and his camel named ‘Bright,’ carried 500 children’s books to the nearly impossible to reach community of Kech Balochistan in southwest Pakistan.
Its premier recognition, the annual Freedom Through Literacy Award, identifies and honors individuals who have done exemplary work to instill in others, a love of reading. Since 2015, The Freedom Through Literacy Award has disbursed $38,500 in prize money, honoring 36 individual champions of literacy in the United States, the Philippines, Bhutan, Pakistan, Rwanda, Cambodia, Mexico, Australia, Zimbabwe and Greece.