UNESCO Literacy Prize Laureate Promoting Children’s Right To Read And Climate Change Awareness

Vietnam has made notable progress in education in the last 30 years, but rural and mountainous areas of the country still suffer from a great shortage of books and an undeveloped library system. Some children’s only contact with literature is in the form of textbooks.

Nguyen Quang Thach who spent 19 years studying library design and applying library models, started establishing three libraries in 2007 and expanded with the help of funding to build 28 libraries in nine provinces in Vietnam………………………………