Nonprofit Leader Wants to Help Kids Through Books
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Seena Jacob, founder of BookWallah, is working to help children heal with books.
Seena Jacob, the founder of the nonprofit BookWallah, is working to help children heal from trauma using books. She founded the organization in 2009 when she says she began to question her life’s purpose and started to visit orphanages around the world.
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Nonprofit Leader Wants to Help Kids Through Books
Clip: 5/2/2022 | 3m 29sVideo has Closed Captions
Seena Jacob, the founder of the nonprofit BookWallah, is working to help children heal from trauma using books. She founded the organization in 2009 when she says she began to question her life’s purpose and started to visit orphanages around the world.
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