2025-09-14T15:07:41-07:00 2024-12-31 SUSAN ROONEY 40 Greenleaf St Unit 106 Quincy MA 02169 990EZ 2024-01-01 473713122 AFGHAN CHILDRENS SONGBOOK LITERACY INC AFGH 6173543182 25 WHITNEY AVE CAMBRIDGE MA 02138 LOUISE PASCALE Executive Director 6173543182 2025-09-14 true true Susan A Rooney P00364075 6178164413 X 2024 2025-03-06 01:10:19Z X X WWW.AFGHANSONGBOOK.ORG X X 1281 X 1281 0 0 0 0 1281 356 23304 23660 -22379 35176 12797 35176 12797 35176 12797 35176 12797 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 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 Guides had been distributed to schools, orphanages and family centers all accross Afghanistan.Given the current political situation in Afghanistan, we ar now offering a new visual/digital format of all three books will be distributed accross the world. Afghans living inside and outside of Afghanistan will be able to easily obtain these resourcces as well as educators or others working with Afghans or who are interested in learning about the rich Afghan culture. We are excited to offer this newly designed format and we are grateful to Trivision Studios for their expertise and creative input. This new format will guaratee that these delightful songs and stories with be kept alive for generations to come. 100 100 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 02138 6173543182 false false false false false false false false false false false NONE NONE true X 2885 1281 4166 0 0 0 0 2885 1281 4166 0 0 4166 0 0 0 0 2885 1281 4166 X 0.00000 0.00000 Other Expenses.1003 Information Technology $23000 Other Expenses.1005 Travel $268 Other Expenses.1 EASTERN BANK FEES $36