One Man's Mission to Promote Peace...One School at a Time

You may notice I've added another book to "most recently read" - having just finished "Three Cups of Tea" today.
Because it is such an important book, with a message that just might be vital to life on this planet, please humor me as I quote a passage and some information from the book.

“Look here, look at these hills.” Khan indicated the boulder fields that marched up from the dirt streets of Baharak like irregularly spaced headstones, arrayed like a vast army of the dead as they climbed toward the deepening sunset. 
“There has been far too much dying in these hills,” Sadhar Kahn said, somberly. “Every rock, every boulder that you see before you is one of my mujahadeen, shahids, martyrs, who sacrificed their lives fighting the Russians and the Taliban. Now we must make their sacrifice worthwhile,” Khan said, turning to face Mortenson. “We must turn these stones into schools.”

"In 1993 a mountaineer named Greg Mortenson drifted into an impoverished Pakistan village after a failed attempt to climb K2.  Moved by the inhabitants' kindness, he promised to return and build a school.  Thre Cups of Tea is the story of that promise and its extraordinary outcome.  Overe the next decade Mortenson built not just one but fifty-five school - especially for girls - the the forbidding terrain that gave birth to the Taliban.  His story is at once a riveting adventure and a testament to the power of the humanitarian spirit."
1. Visit the www.threecupsoftea.com web site If you buy books online, go through this web site and 7% will go toward a girls’ education scholarship fund in Pakistan and Afghanistan .

http://www.threecupsoftea.com/                         http://www.penniesforpeace.org/

2. Suggest Three Cups of Tea to a friend, colleague, book club, women’s group, church, civic group, synagogue, mosque, university or high school class.

3. Check if the book is in your local library. If not, donate a book or ask them to add it to their library collection. Ask friends to do the same.

4. Encourage your local bookstore to carry this book.

5. Write a Three Cups of Tea book review for Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble, Borders, or a blog.

6. Ask the book editor of your local newspaper or radio to consider reviewing the book.

7. Pennies for Peace, www.penniesforpeace.org, is designed for school children. Get your local school involved. Since 1994 (as of 2006) more than eight million pennies have been raised through Pennies for Peace.

8. If you want to support - efforts to promote education and literacy, especially for girls, you can make a tax-deductible contribution to the nonprofit organization, Central Asia Institute, PO Box 7209, Bozeman, MT 59771, www.ikat.org. It costs $1.00 per month for one child’s education in Pakistan or Afghanistan, a penny to buy a pencil, and a teacher’s salary averages $1 per day.