2024-05-14T14:51:21-07:00 2023-12-31 SUSAN ROONEY 40 Greenleaf St Unit 106 Quincy MA 02169 990EZ 2023-01-01 473713122 AFGHAN CHILDRENS SONGBOOK & LITERACY INC AFGH 6173543182 25 WHITNEY AVE CAMBRIDGE MA 02139 LOUISE PASCALE Executive Director 2024-05-14 true LOUISE PASCALE 999009999 true Susan A Rooney P00364075 6178164413 X 0 AAL1 IAL1 FAL1 2023 2023-04-26 12:10:37Z X X WWW.AFGHANSONGBOOK.ORG X X 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 The Founder and Director of this project, Louise Pascale, lived in Afghanistan in the late 1960s working as a Peace Corps volunteer. Working with an Afghan poet and musician she collected traditional Afghan childrens 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 non-profit, the Afghan Childrens Songbook Project and the first book printed in 2008 was Qu Qu Qu Barg-e-Chinaar. The songbook has vibrant illustrations of 16 songs in Dari, Pashto, Haragi and Uzbeki and includes a CD of Afghan 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 childrens folktales, in Dari and Pashto with beautiful illustrations created by a talented Afghan woman illustrator.By 2020, 50,000 songbooks The Founder and Director of this project, Louise Pascale, lived in Afghanistan in the late 1960s working as a Peace Corps volunteer. Working with an Afghan poet and musician she collected traditional Afghan childrens 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 non-profit, the Afghan Childrens Songbook Project and the first book printed in 2008 was Qu Qu Qu Barg-e-Chinaar. The songbook has vibrant illustrations of 16 songs in Dari, Pashto, Haragi and Uzbeki and includes a CD of Afghan 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 childrens folktales, in Dari and Pashto with beautiful illustrations created by a talented Afghan woman illustrator.By 2020, 50,000 songbooks along with accompanying Teachers Guide had been distributed to schools, orphanages and family centers across Afghanistan.Given the political situation in Afghanistan, we are now offering a new visual/digital format of all three books which will be distributed across the world. Afghans living inside and outside of Afghanistan will be able to easily obtain these resources as well as educators or others working with Afghans or who are interested in learning more about the rich Afghan culture. We are excited to offer this newly designed format of the books and we are grateful to Trivision Studios for their expertise and creative input. This new format will guarantee that these delightful songs and folktales will be kept alive for generations to come. LOUISE PASCALE Executive Dir. 0 0 CAROL CHANDOR Treasurer 0 0 false false false false false false false 0 0 0 false 0 0 false LOUISE PASCALE 25 WHITNEY AVE CAMBRIDGE MA 02139 6173543182 false false false false false false false false false false false NONE NONE true X 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 X 0.00000 0.00000