Today we celebrate the Afghan Children’s Songbook Project — a thing of true beauty.
In 1966 Louise Pascale, a U.S. Peace Corps volunteer in Kabul, Afghanistan, worked with Afghan artists to make a children’s songbook to distribute to children around the city. In 2003 Louise returned to a war-torn Afghanistan to revitalize the songbook to help children find joy in singing songs across many Afghan ethnicities and cultures. The Afghan Children’s Songbook Project has since distributed fifty thousand copies of the songbook to schools and traveling libraries all over the country.
