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Our social commitment

Sharing the love of reading

Every time you purchase a Librio book, we also donate a book to share the joy of reading.

We give books by partnering with Room to Read, a global organisation transforming the lives of millions of children across low-income communities by unlocking their full potential through education.

For every book we create, we donate $1.00 to Room to Read in support of their work.

Our impact so far

We want the books we donate to have the greatest impact possible. We chose Room to Read because they supply books to schoolchildren as part of award-winning government-level literacy programmes.

Our books are not donated to individual children but rather to school libraries built by Room to Read in collaboration with local communities. To engender a greater enthusiasm for reading and because many cultures have little or no children’s book culture, Room to Read works with local artists to publish the vast majority of these books themselves.

We’re incredibly proud to have donated over 125,000 books to Room to Read’s libraries, with hopefully many more to come.

Librio in Cambodia

In 2019, four members of Librio were lucky enough to spend a week in Cambodia visiting schools taking part in Room to Read’s programmes.

Seeing the impact of our donations was an incredible experience, one that left us more convinced than ever that Room to Read was an incredible organisation to partner with and a perfect fit for our social commitments.

You can read about our experiences on our blog.

Be Brave: Our collaboration with Room to Read

In 2020, we were lucky enough to work Room to Read to create a personalised picture book highlighting their work and celebrating the wonderful diversity of the children they support.

In the book, six children from around the world give readers tips on how to be brave at the start of a new school year. Their journey takes them to Nepal, India, Jordan, South Africa, Vietnam and Honduras, with each country illustrated by a local Room to Read artist.

As this book is a collaboration with Room to Read, we’ve doubled our per-book donations to donate two books for every copy of Be Brave sold.

While we are immensely proud of our charitable donations, the core of what Librio does is create wonderful, personalised children’s books for your own little ones, so if you’re ready to dive in, click below.

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