Adam Braun set up the organization Pencils of Promise in 2019. Its purpose is to make sure all children have a c to study better. In 2019, the organization b a new school somewhere every 90 hours. It has helped more than 22,000 children in Africa and Asia.
It started when Adam Braun studied in a college. He was visiting India when a boy stopped him and a for money on the street. Mr Braun asked the boy w he would want, if he could have anything in the world.
"I thought the answer was going to be 'a house' or 'a car' or 'a boat'. His answer was 'a pencil'. So I gave him my pencil and he was very h and excited. I realized he had never been to s before, and that was the reality(现实) for 57 million children around the world," Braun said.
Adam Braun started working in finance(金融) after he graduated from college, but he n forgot the boy and the problem he realized.
"We live in a world in which every child can have a chance to get a good education, because we have everything necessary already. We are .a to educate every child. So I promised to help create that world," Braun said.
Mr Braun has r money for his project. He paid for building the first Pencils of Promise School in Laos five years ago. S then, his organization has helped pay for more than 200 schools in the countryside of Laos and Ghana.
