Three Cups of Tea
Greg Mortenson, 2006
A failed climb leads a young American to promise a Pakistani village a school — and to a decades-long argument that education is the real front line.
Greg Mortenson
The book was co-written with journalist David Oliver Relin, who travelled to Pakistan and Afghanistan to gather villagers' accounts.
Feels like hope, power and unease.
Why educating a girl changes more than her own life.
Once you educate the boys, they tend to leave the villages and go search for work in the cities, but the girls stay home, become leaders in the community, and pass on what they’ve learned. If you really want to change a culture, to empower women, improve basic hygiene and health care, and fight high rates of infant mortality, the answer is to educate girls. Books by Greg Mortenson
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