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Reading Programs in Southeast Asia

The document discusses reading intervention programs in 4 Southeast Asian countries - Philippines, Malaysia, Vietnam, and Cambodia. In the Philippines, a teacher named Ryan Homan uses a bamboo raft to pick up students from their homes along a river and bring them to the riverbank on weekends to provide reading lessons and read books to them. In Malaysia, Taylor's University organizes the Project Bacabaca reading program. In Vietnam, the Bring Books to Villages project has distributed thousands of books to children in rural areas over 3 years. And in Cambodia, Room to Read works to establish school and mobile libraries to promote literacy.

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Reading Programs in Southeast Asia

The document discusses reading intervention programs in 4 Southeast Asian countries - Philippines, Malaysia, Vietnam, and Cambodia. In the Philippines, a teacher named Ryan Homan uses a bamboo raft to pick up students from their homes along a river and bring them to the riverbank on weekends to provide reading lessons and read books to them. In Malaysia, Taylor's University organizes the Project Bacabaca reading program. In Vietnam, the Bring Books to Villages project has distributed thousands of books to children in rural areas over 3 years. And in Cambodia, Room to Read works to establish school and mobile libraries to promote literacy.

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Reading Intervention Programs

( Philippines, Malaysia, Vietnam and Cambodia )

Philippines

SORSOGON, Philippines – Along the banks of a river flowing through Donsol town in Sorsogon
province, children turn up during weekends. But the kids are not there to swim or to play – they
are there to learn.

The children are brought to the riverbank by their teacher, 30-year-old Ryan Homan. Homan,
son of the village chief in Barangay San Jose in Donsol, has made it his mission to spend extra
time with kids who need a little more help with their lessons.

Their weekend program is called Balsa-Basa, after the Filipino words balsa (raft) and basa (read).
Homan picks up each of his students from their homes along the river, with a bamboo raft that
functions like a school bus. Once they are all gathered at the riverbank, he and co-teacher Robert
Rejuso teach lessons to the kids and read books to them from 7 am to 1 pm.

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Malaysia

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Bring books to Villages project

Students of Pu Xi boarding school in Tuan Giao District, Dien Bien Province reading
books from the ‘Bringing Books to Villages’ project.

Over the past three years, the family of Hoang Kim Gia Bao, a 14-year-old pianist who is
studying in Hungary, has presented thousands of books to children across Vietnam’s rural
areas through their project ‘Dua Sach Ve Lang’

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