Three Cups of Tea has been on my list for years, but when the controversy arose over the truth of the details and mishandling of funds, I filed it to the back for a while. As a literacy specialist in middle schools, this book came to my attention again: this time in the form of The Young Reader's...
This story is about the real life adventures of the author of Three Cups of Tea, Greg Mortenson, and how he brought a school to the remote village of Korphe in Pakistan. While the story is powerful as it is about a community coming together to achieve a goal, I would have liked to see more of th...
There's a lot of hype about Mortenson's uniquely sensitive and relationship building approach to his work through the Central Asia Institute, but for me this book is more about Sarfraz than Dr Mortenson. Building strong relationships before attempting change and development which was trailblazing...
This book is a clever testament to the people involved. I absolutely adored the artwork...that paper cutouts were amazing! Also, the colors that they used were beautiful and eye catching. The telling of the events that took place there was also very well done. It honestly was inspiring. I think t...
Peace through Education. We had to read it for school, it was the most boring thing I have ever read in my entire life.
'Three Cups of Tea" by Greg MortensonThree Cups of Tea is a stroy about a man who decides to work on charity projects, and his struggle to find the money and people willing to help him. His first project in the small village of Korphe is the core focus of the book. He finds this village when he a...
i was just looking for a travelogue in afghanistan, having recently returned from a deployment there. Instead i found stones into schools which gave so much more information, a story, and more interesting than any travelogue i might have found. The story telling jumps around somewhat but each s...
