March Review

For the month March I have chosen to review Three Cups of Tea, by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin. Let me just start off by saying that I really enjoyed this book and hope that more people will read it and open their minds to the importance of education to make change. While hiking down from a failed attempt at K2 Greg took a wrong turn and ended up in a remote village in Northern Pakistan. The village welcomed him in and helped him to recover from his journey. While there he noticed that there was no school building for the children to study in, and promised to come back and build a school. From this one meeting he worked to open the doors to Pakistan’s poor by providing their children, especially girls, with an education. Greg Mortenson feels that education of both boys and girls will enable the people of Pakistan to do more for themselves, and their children.

The book continues to show the trials that he faces in trying to build his first school; from raising money, making sure supplies make it to the remote areas and building the right relationships in a culture vastly different from America. Not only did he help to raise funds and build schools, but also water support, a bridge and relationships into Afghanistan. This story is an amazing journey of one mans vision to bring education to a people who might not have had the means to do it themselves. Plus his schools give the people a choice in how they want to be educated; by empowering the girls who will become women to do more to help their communities.

I highly recommend this book, and hope that you too will read it and experience Greg Mortenson’s vision to see education for the children of Pakistan.