Greg is a mountaineer who "climbed Pakistan’s K2, the world’s second highest mountain in the Karakoram range.While recovering from the climb in a village called Korphe, Mortenson met a group of children sitting in the dirt writing with sticks in the sand, and made a promise to help them build a school.
From that rash promise, grew a remarkable humanitarian campaign, in which Mortenson has dedicated his life to promote education, especially for girls, in remote regions of Pakistan and Afghanistan.
As of 2009, Mortenson has established over 90 schools in rural and often volatile regions of Pakistan and Afghanistan, which provide education to over 34,000 children, including 24,000 girls, where few education opportunities existed before."
Chapeau - it is a reminder that we can all really make a difference if we choose to do so!
Greg has written a book about his venture - read about it @ www.threecupsoftea.com
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