Breadpig Blog: Purveyor & Publisher of All Things Geek — Breadpig Travelogue

First, an update from Sri Lanka! Here are some pictures from the construction site of the Tharumal Singhithi Preschool that is being partially paid for with money from sales of XKCD, Volume 0. One day soon, this building will look like this and be full of happy children! Construction begins despite the rain Lots of progress! Next, the continuation of the (now very delayed) travel log! Of the four countries I was visiting, Sri Lanka had the highest literacy rate at 90.8*. According to my guide Chandima, Sri Lanka had a proud tradition of literacy that was visible just 20...

Handprints at the Early Childhood Development Center Just a few hours before flying out of Kathmandu, I met up with Luna and fought through some intense traffic to visit one of her ChangeFusion fellows' operations. When Luna found out that I had spent some time working in prisons, she insisted that I make time to visit Pushpa Basnet's Early Childhood Development Center. Looking back, I could not have found a better way to spend my last day in Nepal. (ZOMG ALL THE PICTURES OF KIDS) Pushpa was out of town for a conference in Japan, but her Early Childhood Development...

Luna and Rafael of ChangeFusion Nepal Luna Shrestha Thakur left Nepal as a teenager because she found its patriarchy suffocating, especially for bright, independent young women like her. For ten years, she traveled the world and learned about different cultures and societies: she was so inspired by what she encountered that she wrote a book, A Journey to the Self, and published it for other Nepali youth with similar questions. The reception to the book was so positive that she returned to Nepal to speak and, eventually, founded an incredibly promising organization aiming to inspire a new generation of dreamers...

Education and reconciliation after the civil war in Sri Lanka.

In Sri Lanka, Room to Read is building dozens of brightly colored and stimulating preschools for the youngest students. Breadpig pays a visit, learns about the care that goes into designing a school and its curriculum, and plays with adorable children drawing pineapples.