Books for Pakistan

Your donation is desperately needed. Hoopoe Books/Share Literacy is now collaborating with DIL (Developments in Literacy) to donate these beautiful children’s books by Idries Shah to the children they serve. DIL runs 150 schools serving approximately 15,000 children, especially girls, in underdeveloped regions in Pakistan.

These will be bilingual English and Urdu editions, so that children can read the Urdu translation and the English on the facing page. We are currently in the process of translating these titles and preparing the output files. The first two titles will be: The Lion Who Saw Himself in the Water and The Clever Boy and the Terrible, Dangerous Animal.

They will be printed in Peshawar by Khatiz Organization for Rehabilitation (KOR), who is also printing our Dari and Pashto editions for Afghanistan. DIL will distribute the books to the children attending their schools. We hope to keep our costs to under one dollar per book and will be able to do this only if our print run is high enough. Please help us reach an initial 40,000 copies per title. We would like to do more than that and, with your help, we can.

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