Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time
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Genres: Biographies & Memoirs, Nonfiction
Book Type: Paperback
Author:
Genres: Biographies & Memoirs, Nonfiction
Book Type: Paperback
Krista C. (kacey14) -
Helpful Score: 2
This book was great! It had action, adventure, and some complex travel narratives. It shines a humanitarian spotlight on educaton and poverty, and taught me more about a part of the world I previously didn't know much about. I'd recommend this book highly. It has inspired me!
I appreciated learning about the nuances of trying to set up secular schools in Pakistan and Afganistan. Greg Mortenson shows what one person with a persistent vision and the doggedness to keep plugging away can accomplish. From an initial solo effort to build one school in a village that helped him recover from a K2 climbing expedition, Moretenson and the Central Asia Institute he helped co-found have a network of schools, community vocational centers and health programs that have educated 80,000 children (boys AND GIRLS) in a remote part of the world that is most often lacking the barest of what the western world would consider life's necessities.
When facing all sorts of odds against him, Mortenson just kept putting one foot in front of the other with compassion and an open heart. He always focused on the children. His passion has helped make my world safer because when parents have a choice about where their children can get an education, far fewer of them send their boys to the Taliban run schools. Fewer Taliban fanatics are being molded. That has to help ensure a safer world.
We should all be thankful to Greg Mortenson. I'm supporting him with a donation to his CAI organization today. Here's a link to the organizations website in case anyone else is inspired to make a donation even before reading the book! https://www.ikat.org/
I appreciated learning about the nuances of trying to set up secular schools in Pakistan and Afganistan. Greg Mortenson shows what one person with a persistent vision and the doggedness to keep plugging away can accomplish. From an initial solo effort to build one school in a village that helped him recover from a K2 climbing expedition, Moretenson and the Central Asia Institute he helped co-found have a network of schools, community vocational centers and health programs that have educated 80,000 children (boys AND GIRLS) in a remote part of the world that is most often lacking the barest of what the western world would consider life's necessities.
When facing all sorts of odds against him, Mortenson just kept putting one foot in front of the other with compassion and an open heart. He always focused on the children. His passion has helped make my world safer because when parents have a choice about where their children can get an education, far fewer of them send their boys to the Taliban run schools. Fewer Taliban fanatics are being molded. That has to help ensure a safer world.
We should all be thankful to Greg Mortenson. I'm supporting him with a donation to his CAI organization today. Here's a link to the organizations website in case anyone else is inspired to make a donation even before reading the book! https://www.ikat.org/
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