Ann Bennett’s novel Bamboo
Heart won the inaugural Asian Books Blog Book of The Lunar Year Award, for
the Year of the Horse – click here for details.
Ann’s (ahem) prize was to write a guest blog about a charity dedicated to
promoting literacy in Asia...
My chosen
charity is one you probably won’t have heard of. It is called Big Brother Mouse
and is based in Luang Prabang in Laos. Before I stumbled across it I did a fair
amount of internet surfing, and made enquiries of several friends with
knowledge of the region. I discovered that there are many projects working on
improving literacy in Asia, including UNESCO, and other well-known names such
as Save the Children.
