[Oe List ...] Book recommendation

Tue Apr 1 18:47:40 EDT 2008

Yes it was a great book and exciting read.? They say Greg will get the Nobel Prize for setting up more than 58 schools in Pakistan and now Afganistan -- at $12,000 per school.? He purchased the materials locally and gave them to the locals to design and build their own school.? Wish we had done as well.

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From: LAURELCG at aol.com
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Subject: [Oe List ...] Book recommendation

I received this from Karen Stoffers, my friend and local pastor of the United Methodist Church.??I want to read this book!? Jann?

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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. 

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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. 

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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.

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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:

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www.threecupsoftea.com

Central Asia Institute www.ikat.org

A children's peace initiative that raised money for schools with pennies http://www.penniesforpeace.org/home.html

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I will sleep tonight thinking of the children of Pakistan and Afghanistan.

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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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