A mobile library bus chugged to a Kabul orphanage recently and opened its doors for the first time since the Taliban's return to power in Afghanistan, eliciting beaming smiles from children.
"I'm really feeling happy. I'm studying the books I love again," says 11-year-old Arezo Azizi, whose favourite tome is a counting aid about a cat who gets more pieces of cheese the higher it can count.
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