Kabul library bus where children derive joy in reading

The library-on-wheels offers pupils and street kids free access to children's books, which are in short supply at public schools and libraries in Afghanistan. [AFP]

The door of the blue bus slides open and dozens of children excitedly bound up the steps, eager to get their hands on hard-to-find books in Kabul's first mobile library.

Named Charmaghz, the Dari for walnut, which is associated with logic in Afghanistan because the nut resembles a brain, the converted public bus is hard to miss as it winds through the dusty streets of the Afghan capital.