Afghan Childrens Songbook Literacy Inc

Profile

The Founder and Director, Louise Pascale, lived in Afghanistan in the late 1960's working as a Peace Corp volunteer. Working with and Afghan poet and musucian, she collected traditional Afgan children's songs and shared the songs with children in schools around Kabul. Many years later, she found her old copy of the songbook and made a commitment to return the songs to the children of Afghanistan. She founded the Afghan Chldrens Songbook Project and the first book printed in 20085 was Qu Qu Qu Barg-e Chinaar. The book has vibrant illustrations of 16 songs in Dari, Pashto, Haragi and Uzbeki and includes a CD of Afgan children singing. The second songbook, Awasana Seesana was printed in 2013 and it too includes a CD. In 2018 a third book, Bood Nabood, was published, and includes six delightful traditional Afghan children's folktales, in Dari and Pashto with beautiful illustrations created by a talented Afghan woman illustrator. By 2020, 50,000 books along with accompanying Teacher's Guide