Books for Afghanistan Program

Dari-Pashto Editions

In 2007, we re-applied to the Ministry of Education in Kabul, as per their instructions, and obtained current approval to continue with our project of repatriating Hoopoe traditional Teaching-Stories to Afghanistan. Collected and written for children by Afghan writer and scholar Idries Shah, these stories occupy a permanent place in the region's cultural traditions.

NATO-ISAF has now printed 250,000 copies of The Lion Who Saw Himself in the Water by Idries Shah and will distribute them to Afghan school children.

This commemorates the 800th anniversary of the Afghan poet and thinker Jalalludin Rumi, who first documented this story.

Through NATO-ISAF we are now in direct correspondence with the Kabuli printer and have received sample copies of this first Dari-Pashto Hoopoe title, assuring us of the quality of their work.

We continue to raise funds to print the first of the other Dari-Pashto bilingual editions of Hoopoe Books, five of which are now ready to print.

We are actively seeking a well-established NGO with a presence both here and in Afghanistan to partner with us to arrange for in-country administration and distribution to the school children of Afghanistan.

YOU CAN HELP:
By making a tax-deductible donation to this effort, please click here.

By purchasing Hoopoe Books online, click here.

IN ADDITION, WE ARE LOOKING FOR:

• Organizations (schools, orphanages, libraries, etc.) in Afghanistan that might need these books
• Nonprofit organizations serving the Afghan community that might wish to purchase Dari-Pashto translations of these books for use in the USA and Canada

Please write to hoopoebooks @ aol.com or by fax at 650-948-9546 if you can help with the above.

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