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I received this from Karen Stoffers, my friend and local  pastor of the 
United Methodist Church.  I want to read this  book!  Jann 
 
Hello my friends and family,
I have just finished reading the most amazing book Three  Cups of Tea by Greg 
Mortenson and David Oliver Relin. This is a remarkable  story. When I think 
of the sacrifices he made, the kindness of the Muslim people  that partnered 
with him to build the schools and the ongoing work, it is  overwhelming. 
 
This is from the back cover: In 1993 a mountaineer named Greg  Mortenson 
drifted into an impoverished Pakistan village in the Karakoram  mountains after a 
failed attempt to climb K2. Moved by the inhabitants'  kindness, he promised 
to return and build a school. Three Cups of Tea  is the story of that promise 
and its extraordinary outcome. Over the next decade  Mortenson built not just 
one but fifty-five schools - especially for girls - in  the forbidding terrain 
that gave birth to the Taliban. 
 
Years after that first school Mortenson met with one of the  girls, the 
granddaughter of the chief who welcomed Mortenson when he stumbled  into their 
village, hungry, cold and lost while climbing down a mountain  glacier. She was 
now taking advanced courses on a scholarship from the  Central Asia Institute 
(the foundation that provides funding for the schools and  many other projects). 
This is what she said: 
"And now that I am already in Skardu, I feel that anything is  possible. I 
don't want to be just a health worker. I want to be such a woman  that I can 
start a hospital and be an executive, and look over all the health  problems of 
all the women in the Braldu. I want to become a very famous woman of  this 
area..I want to be a ...'Superlady,'" she said, grinning defiantly, daring  
anyone, any man, to tell her she couldn't. (Mortenson)beamed at the bold  
granddaughter of Haji Ali and imagined the contented look that would have been  on the 
old narmadhar's face if he had lived long enough to see this day, to see  the 
seed they planted together bear such splendid fruit.
 
If you want to read an incredible book that will stay with  you, I recommend 
Three Cups of Tea. If you buy it online at  threecupsoftea.com, 7% goes to a 
girls' education scholarship fund in Pakistan  and Afghanistan. Here are some 
links:
 
_www.threecupsoftea.com_ (http://www.threecupsoftea.com/) 
Central Asia Institute _www.ikat.org_ (http://www.ikat.org/) 
A children's peace initiative that raised money for schools with pennies 
_http://www.penniesforpeace.org/home.html_ 
(http://www.penniesforpeace.org/home.html) 
 
I will sleep tonight thinking of the children of Pakistan and  Afghanistan.
 
Peace,
Karen



 
 
 
"Here (in Pakistan and  Afghanistan), we drink three cups of tea to do 
business, the first you are a  stranger, the second you become a friend, and the 
htird, you join our family and  for our family we are preapred to do anything - 
even die." - Haji Ali, Korphe  Village Chief, Karakoram Mountains, Pakistan.
Read Three Cups  of Tea , purchase online at threecupsoftea.com and 7% goes 
towards  scholarships for girl's educations in Pakistan and Afghanistan. When 
all the  children, boys and girls of Pakistan and Afghanistan can read, then we 
can say  MISSION  ACCOMPLISHED!








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