Mobile library restarts in Afghan capital, delighting children

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'I'm really feeling happy. I'm studying the books I love again,' says 11-year-old Arezo Azizi.

"I'm really feeling happy. I'm studying the books I love again," says 11-year-old Arezo Azizi, whose favourite tome is a counting aid about a cat who gets more pieces of cheese the higher it can count.

The mobile library is one of five buses leased by a local organisation called Charmaghz, established by Freshta Karim, an Afghan graduate from Oxford University. But "we lost almost all of our sponsors after the government was taken by the Taliban" in-mid August, says Ahmad Fahim Barakati, deputy head of the non-profit initiative.

Like the children, librarian Ramzia Abdi Khail, 22, is visibly happy that the show is back on the road.Girls' education has been hit particularly hard by the Taliban's return to power, as millions of girls across the country have been barred from secondary education in state schools.

 

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