{"id":33708,"date":"2019-03-01T11:24:20","date_gmt":"2019-03-01T11:24:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=33708"},"modified":"2019-03-01T11:24:20","modified_gmt":"2019-03-01T11:24:20","slug":"this-is-how-well-change-the-country-inside-kabuls-book-bus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=33708","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;This is how we&#8217;ll change the country&#8217; &#8211; inside Kabul&#8217;s book bus"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"64.428\">\n<p class=\"p1\"><strong>Kabul, Afghanistan &#8211;<\/strong> A blue bus stops on a small street on the outskirts of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/afghanistan.html\">Afghanistan<\/a>&#8216;s capital, Kabul.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Soon after the doors of the bus open, joyful children crowd the mobile library to pick up their favourite book and retreat into a corner to learn about the adventures of a superhero or the wisdom and kindness of a fairy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The Charmaghaz (walnut) project started in February last year and soon became a regular sight around the city.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">It operates daily and visits up to four communities a day across Kabul, with every visit lasting two hours.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">&#8220;The main goal of the mobile library is to promote critical thinking, which we believe it is not promoted in our education system or our\u00a0society,&#8221; said Freshta Karim, the 26-year-old founder of the Charmaghaz project that runs the mobile library.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">&#8220;When children read stories from around the world and see issues through somebody else&#8217;s eyes, they learn to think critically and realise their potential.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">&#8220;It&#8217;s been one year since we started working with children and we realised they are very passionate and they have so much energy and thirst for knowledge.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">&#8220;They deserve a lot of investment. Education is one of the areas we need to invest because this is how we will change this country,&#8221; Karim added.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kabul, Afghanistan &#8211; A blue bus stops on a small street on the outskirts of Afghanistan&#8217;s capital, Kabul. Soon after the doors of the bus open, joyful children crowd the mobile library to pick up their favourite book and retreat into a corner to learn about the adventures of a superhero or the wisdom and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":33709,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33708\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/33709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}