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Thought patterns developed through familiarity with these tales promote a flexibility of mind that cannot coexist with extremist beliefs.

The Clever Boy and the Terrible, Dangerous Animal by Idries Shah

The Lion Who Saw Himself in the Water by Idries Shah

These twelve titles are currently available in Kabul in Dari-Pashto bilingual and in English only editions. Information on each title is available by clicking on the book images above. We also provide Teacher Guides and Teacher Training, audio versions of the stories in all 3 languages, read with page-turn signals for classroom use, and posters to brighten up classroom walls.

There are also downloadable radio programs on six of the stories for local Afghan radio.

WITH YOUR HELP WE CAN KEEP THIS PROGRAM GOING

For a tax-deductible donation of $100, 60 children will receive a book to keep, and their teacher a literacy guide for the classroom.

PLEASE DONATE NOW!

To help us provide more children with beautiful illustrated books of their own.

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A limited number of these Dari-Pashto bilingual titles are available in the US. To order, please contact us by email at [email protected].

Help Books for Afghanistan at No Cost to You!

You can do that anytime you make an online purchase from Amazon, just by using the AmazonSmile program. Simply make all of your Amazon purchases at smile.amazon.com (which is still Amazon, with the very same products and prices) instead of amazon.com – to do this, simply click this link to set your Amazon account up so that the Hoopoe Share Literacy Fund is the recipient charity (Books for Afghanistan is an HSLF program). From then on, AmazonSmile will remember to automatically donate 0.5% of your eligible Amazon purchases to HSLF, at no extra cost to you!

Proceeds from the sale of Hoopoe English-Pashto and English-Dari editions will support this program.

Fundraising and Volunteering

MATERIALS TO HELP YOU HELP BFA

Videos for Fundraising Events

Click here to watch the Books for Afghanistan video

Learn about our Books for Afghanistan program. This video includes Dr. Mohammad Khan Kharoti, founder of Green Village Schools, Capt. Mike Butler of the Provincial Reconstruction Team, and Palwasha Salam, Hoopoe Books Director of Teacher Education in Kabul.

Download the video above HERE to help with educational or fundraising presentations. It takes about 35-40 minutes to download this 1 GB zipped mp4 with a broadband connection.

Click here to watch the photo montage of the Books for Afghanistan program video (no audio)

The photo montage video below is designed to run prior to giving a presentation or as support for a fundraising event. There is no sound.

To download the video (892 MB zipped mp4), CLICK HERE. It takes approximately 30 minutes to download with a broadband connection.

Power Point for Fundraising Events

Books for Afghanistan Power Point Presentation

For your fundraising event, you might like to show our informational PowerPoint program.

To download this PowerPoint presentation, click here for the US version and here for the UK version. (You may need to open as read-only.)

A Flyer for Publicity

Download a flyer to pass around to friends and family to help raise funds for the ISHK-Hoopoe Books for Afghanistan Program.

A Poster to Help Get the Word Out

Download a colorful 11″ x 17″ poster to display to help get the word out for this program.

Poster for Books For Afghanistan Fund Raising

Alternative Gift Cards

Books for Afghanistan Alternative Gift Card

PROMOTE PEACE THROUGH EDUCATION
Give a Gift of Books

Purchase Gift Cards in Honor of Friends and Family

Give your family, friends and co-workers a gift of books to children who have so little and on whom the future of Afghanistan depends. With your donation to our Gift Card program, you can give a first book to as many Afghan children as you wish and do it in honor of people on your gift list. To purchase, download the form here.

Purchase All-Occasion Cards for Giving or Mailing

Blank All-Occasion Card

A packet of 10 beautiful cards for a donation of only $20 will provide twelve Afghan children with their first book! To purchase, download the form here.