It all started from casual conversations between Kaushal and Pine. Both of them while pursuing their corporate careers in Singapore felt a strong need to contribute back to society especially in the field of education. Both held a firm belief that education has the means to provide the necessary tools to change one’s own future – it is no co-incidence that both had been beneficiaries of Singapore’s excellent education system.

They started searching for potential areas for contributing and realised that a developed country such as Singapore has tremendous educational resources such as text books (in good condition) which are often thrown to rubbish but which could be effectively channeled for students in under developed or developing countries. Thus they decided to channel education resources which would have otherwise gone to the bins to potential beneficiaries, a waste to reuse model starting with Singapore. Both of them pitched this idea to their friends and soon Wilson, Serene, Anson, Jayne, Sherine, Ben and Olu joined them in forming Books to Read, a start of a new movement.