Shauna and Eric Varvel hosted a beautiful cocktail and dinner event at their home on Saturday evening, October 15th in honor of Room To Read.

Room to Read's founder, John Wood, author of Leaving Microsoft to Change the World, was there and spoke about forth-coming projects and plans for the organization. Room to Read is a dynamic and rapidly growing non-profit organization founded on the belief that “World Change Starts with Educated Children.” The organization partners with local communities throughout the developing world to establish schools, libraries and other educational infrastructure. As of June 2011, Room to Read has established 1,442 schools and 11,246 libraries, distributed 9.4 million books, and published 553 local-language children's books--benefiting 5.1 million children to date. Please visit www.roomtoread.org for more information.