This is one of those books that you read and 1) you are amazed that one person was able to do it and 2) you wonder why this isn't the way our foreign policy is structured in the first place.
The basic idea is that Greg Mortenson wanted to climb K2 and spent a great deal of time preparing for this goal. But disasters interfered and he failed to make it to the top and ended up instead, recuperating in a small village, far from where he planned to be. The kindness of the people led him to promise that he would return and build a school in the village. The book is the story of how that school came to be and all of the difficulties that had to be surmounted to bring it into existence.
Since that first school, at least 53 others have joined the list of projects sponsored by Mortenson and his organization, the Central Asian Institute.
For those who have read this blog for a while, you know that I am deeply interested in education and the form it takes in various cultures. I wish I had oodles of money to give to Mortenson and the CAI. This is how a "war" should be fought.
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