Table of Contents
Introduction: Ten Years, Ten Thousand Libraries! 1
Chapter 1 Bold Goals Attract Bold People 10
Chapter 2 A Kilogram of Gold 17
Chapter 3 The Lottery of Life 25
Chapter 4 Blame It on Bahundanda 34
Chapter 5 Helping Others Help Themselves: The Challenge-Grant Model 43
Chapter 6 GSD: Building a World-Class Team 54
Chapter 7 The Tsunami: One Year After 67
Chapter 8 "No Range Rovers": The War on Overhead 76
Chapter 9 Searching for Seuss 88
Chapter 10 -Baby Fish Goes to School 99
Chapter 11 Sleepless in Siem Reap 109
Chapter 12 "I Was in Grade Two When Our School Was Burned Down" 120
Chapter 13 "Sony, but Your Money Has Disappeared" 129
Chapter 14 "We Picked Up the Phone to Call for Help" 141
Chapter 15 Nine Books Last Night 154
Chapter 16 On Her Narrow Shoulders Rest a Family's Dreams 163
Chapter 17 Mr. X 174
Chapter 18 Now Departing for Cambodia: Literacy One 182
Chapter 19 Frantic Footsteps in the Night 195
Chapter 20 The World's Tallest Fund-raising Thermometer 203
Chapter 21 Whose Version of the Future Will Win? 217
Chapter 22 Boat to Read 228
Chapter 23 "If You Cannot Read, School Can Be a Torture" 240
Chapter 24 "Three Completely Pregnant Cows" 250
Chapter 25 Mr. Poet and Miss Library 260
Author's Note 273
Acknowledgments 275
Index 281
A Message from the Author: How You Can Change the World 289