Three Cups of Tea
One Man’s Mission to Promote Peace...
One School At A Time
by By Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin.
Greg Mortenson is the co-founder (with Dr. Jean Hoerni) and Executive Director of nonprofit Central Asia Institute www.ikat.org. Since a 1993 climb on Pakistan's K2, he has dedicated his life to promote community-based education and literacy programs, especially for girls, in remote mountain regions of Pakistan and Afghanistan. Mortenson is also founder of Pennies For Peace www.penniesforpeace.org and co-author of New York Times best-seller, Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace...One School At A Time (Penguin 2007) www.threecupsoftea.com<BR><BR>Mortenson believes that education and literacy for girls globally is the most important investment all countries can make to create stability, bring socio-economic reform, decrease infant mortality, decrease the population explosion, and improve health, hygiene, and sanitation standards globally.
"You can hand out condoms, build roads, put in electricity, but until girls and women are empowered through education, a society will not change," he says.
Central Asia Institute's achievements include:
55 schools, mostly for girls, in Pakistan and Afghanistan
547 fully or partially supported teachers
Education for over 24,000 students, including 14,000 girls
Temporary education for victims of Pakistan's October 2005 7.8 Richter scale earthquake, that killed 74,000 people, including 18,000 students and displaced 2.8 million refugees
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