Impact | READ Global

These statistics are based on surveys from READ Centers in Nepal (2009)

Number of READ Centers in Nepal: 45

Number of books in the Centers: Over 175,000

Number of computers: 174+

Targeted population in Nepal: 1.04 million

Estimated # of annual READ Center visitors: 540,000

Estimated # of monthly visitors: 50,000

Estimated # of weekly visitors: 9,000

Estimated # of daily visitors: 1,500

READ Nepal visitor details:

Students, teachers and rural farmers are the main library users (65%)
33% of patrons visit the library to get health information
42% of patrons visit to learn to read
30% of patrons visit to find information on how to start a business
18% of the library users visit the library once a week
82% of female library users visit daily or twice a week
2/3 of the library users feel that the computer and internet facilities in the libraries are the most important components.