Ebook: Three cups of tea: one man's mission to promote peace -- one school at a time
Author: Mortenson Greg, Relin David Oliver
- Tags: EDUCATION, Finance, Girls' schools--Afghanistan, Girls' schools--Pakistan, Humanitarian assistance American--Afghanistan, Humanitarian assistance American--Pakistan, Girls' schools, Humanitarian assistance American, Biography, Electronic books, Mortenson Greg, Girls' schools -- Pakistan, Girls' schools -- Afghanistan, Humanitarian assistance American -- Pakistan, Humanitarian assistance American -- Afghanistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan
- Year: 2007
- Publisher: Penguin Publishing
- City: New York;Afghanistan;Pakistan
- Language: English
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One man's campaign to build schools in the most dangerous, remote, and anti-American reaches of Asia: in 1993 Greg Mortenson was an American mountain-climbing bum wandering emaciated and lost through Pakistan's Karakoram. After he was taken in and nursed back to health by the people of a Pakistani village, he promised to return one day and build them a school. From that rash, earnest promise grew one of the most incredible humanitarian campaigns of our time--Mortenson's one-man mission to counteract extremism by building schools, especially for girls, throughout the breeding ground of the Taliban. In a region where Americans are often feared and hated, he has survived kidnapping, death threats, and wrenching separations from his wife and children. But his success speaks for itself--at last count, his Central Asia Institute had built fifty-five schools.--From publisher description.;In Mr. Mortenson's orbit -- Failure -- The wrong side of the river -- "Progress and perfection" -- Self-storage -- 580 letters, one check -- Rawalpindi's rooftops at dusk -- Hard way home -- Beaten by the braldu -- The people have spoken -- Building bridges -- Six days -- Haji Ali's lesson -- "A smile should be more than a memory" -- Equilibrium -- Mortenson in motion -- Red velvet box -- Cherry trees in the sand -- Shrouded figure -- A village called New York -- Tea with the Taliban -- Rumsfeld's shoes -- "The enemy is ignorance" -- Stones into schools.
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