[Oe List ...] Book recommendation

[Marge Philbrook]

I recently heard Greg Mortenson speak while I was visiting Donna and Dallas
Ziegenhorn in Kansas City.  He had the same gentle style that he portrays in
his book.  Marge Philbrook


On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 6:38 PM, <LAURELCG at aol.com> wrote:

>  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
> Central Asia Institute www.ikat.org
> A children's peace initiative that raised money for schools with pennies
> 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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