Awards & Recognition
Impact & Program Quality
San Francisco International Film Festival
Official Selection, She Creates Change, 2024
SXSW EDU Film Program
Official Selection, She Creates Change, 2024
London Short Film Festival
Official Selection, She Creates Change - Trang, 2024
British Animation Awards
2024 Audience Award, She Creates Change — Diksha, 2024
Tribeca X Award
Official Selection, She Creates Change, 2023
Manchester Animation Festival
Best Short Film for Children, She Creates Change – Dewmini, 2023
Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award
Nominee, 2024
Cambodia Ministry of Education
Royal Medal of Munisaraphorn Mahasereywat, 2023, 2013
UNESCO Prize for Girls’ and Women’s Education
Awarded to Room to Read Cambodia, 2022
Library of Congress Literacy Award
Rubenstein Prize, 2014
Special Response Award, 2020
Vietnam Ministry of Culture, Sports & Tourism
Reading Development Award
Awarded to Room to Read Vietnam, 2019
The Laadli Media & Advertising Award for Gender Sensitivity
Awarded to Room to Read India, 2017
National Commission for Protection of Child Rights
2nd Place Short Film Awarded to Room to Read India, 2017
World's Children's Prize
Honorary Award Laureate, 2014
Awarded to John Wood on behalf of Room to Read
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
Confucius Prize for Literacy, 2011
American Library Association
Presidential Citation, 2008
Academy for Educational Development
Breakthrough Ideas in Education Award, 2007