Educate a Girl, Educate a Community...

These are the words (paraphrased from an African proverb) of my new hero, Greg Mortensen. I just finished the incredible book written about his work, Three Cups of Tea. That a simple mountaineer would care enough to remember children he met on his trek down after a failed attempt at climbing K2, from an impoverished mountain village in Pakistan, is unbelievable to me. To these children who knelt on the cold ground barefoot, scratching numbers and letters in the dirt with sticks, without a school to shelter them, he promised he'd be back to build a school, without knowing how he would do it, only that he must.


This book should be required high school reading.

For more than a decade, he's been doing more to fight terrorism than war ever could. To children who have seen bombs falling in their own backyards, Greg Mortensen arrives offering books. One man willing to enter dangerous war zones, has meant that the children of Pakistan and Afghanistan have less reason to enter the walls where extremist hate is the only thing taught, and more reason to believe that America is on their side.


Mortensen's schools don't force western ideas on the children,
but teaches them a balanced secular education that honors
their culture and faith.


"I've learned that terror doesn't happen because some group of people somewhere like Pakistan or Afghanistan simply decide to hate us. It happens because children aren't being offered a bright enough future that they have a reason to choose life over death." -Greg Mortensen

This video is only 5 minutes long. It's worth it!




A genuine charity that will actually
make sure your money goes where
you intend it to. Pennies for Peace

Hallelujah for heroes, and books!