{"id":63191,"date":"2024-04-09T18:00:05","date_gmt":"2024-04-09T09:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2024\/apr\/09\/kahaani-sawaari-stories-on-wheels-storytellers-child-literacy-pakistan-slums-karachi-lyari"},"modified":"2024-04-09T18:00:05","modified_gmt":"2024-04-09T09:00:05","slug":"tall-tales-but-no-dessert-the-storyteller-of-karachi-and-his-ice-cream-cart-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=63191","title":{"rendered":"Tall tales but no dessert: the storyteller of Karachi and his ice-cream cart library"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a country where 77% of 10-year-olds are illiterate, a reading scheme in Pakistan is reaching thousands of children in slums<\/p>\n<p>Pedalling down a narrow alleyway in Karachi\u2019s crowded Lyari Town, Saira Bano slows as she passes a group of children sitting on the ground, listening to a man reading aloud from a book. The eight-year-old gets off her bike, slips off her sandals, and sits on the mat at the back.<\/p>\n<p>She has already heard the story from Mohammad Noman, who is entertaining more than a dozen children with the tale of Noori, an insecure yellow parrot. \u201cI don\u2019t mind listening to it again,\u201d says Saira. \u201cHe\u2019s so funny.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2024\/apr\/09\/kahaani-sawaari-stories-on-wheels-storytellers-child-literacy-pakistan-slums-karachi-lyari\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a country where 77% of 10-year-olds are illiterate, a reading scheme in Pakistan is reaching thousands of children in slumsPedalling down a narrow alleyway in Karachi\u2019s crowded Lyari Town, Saira Bano slows as she passes a group of children sitting o&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3292,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[245,615,59,860,1744,60,958,552,79,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-children","category-education","category-global-development","category-global-education","category-literacy","category-pakistan","category-poverty","category-social-exclusion","category-society","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3292"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63191"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63192,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63191\/revisions\/63192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}