Three Cups of Tea: One Man’s Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time

One person can change the world, as Greg Mortenson, author of the inspiring book, Three Cups Of Tea would attest.

After a failed attempt to climb Pakistan’s K2, the world’s second highest mountain, Mortenson became lost during his descent. Two Balti porters found him and brought him to a village where locals nursed him back to health. It was there, and after witnessing a group of Pakistani children scratch their arithmetic lessons in the sand with sticks, where Mortenson promised to return to build a school in their impoverished village.

After surviving an armed kidnapping in Waziristan, fatwas issued by enraged mullahs, and repeated death threats, Mortenson established the nonprofit Central Asia Institute which, over twelve years, has helped build 55 schools and educate over 25,000 children (mainly girls) in war-torn Pakistan and Afghanistan.

If this book, doesn’t make you want to get off your hiney and build a school, save a child, give money to something somewhere, we don’t know what will. If nothing else, this book certainly convinced us that the act of helping change minds is one hell of an adventure.

Sourced from the Be Three website