(Source: UNESCO - United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) His brainchild, The Center for Knowledge Assistance and Community Development (CKACD), has been awarded the 2016 UNESCO King Sejong Literacy Prize for its programme 'Books for rural areas of Vietnam.' Vietnam has made impressive 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. Thach, who spent 19 years studying library...
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