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Camel delivers books to Pakistan’s desert children amid Covid school closures

SCMP, 28 Apr 2021

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Roshan the camel has been travelling through the desert to deliver books to children in Pakistan’s Balochistan province. Launched in August 2020, the Camel Library project has continued well into 2021 as the coronavirus pandemic has kept schoolchildren at home. Raheema Jalal is the founder of the mobile library project that takes remote learning to a whole new level.

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