Dawood Khan
05-02-2008, 11:43 PM
14 years later, Greg Mortenson’s translated his failure to reach K2 into a grand achievement. He and the Central Asia Institute have built some 50 plus schools in Pakistan and Afghanistan. In the regions that are neglected by those governments. The ignorance and illiteracy left by the governmental void makes these areas fertile ground for the extremism and fundamentalism that produces terrorists and taliban fighters. The US should start pushing more of the funds that are spent on the War on Terror to organizations such as the Central Asia Institute. The future is in the education of the worlds children. Keep them out of the hands of the extremists by providing for their education. This will go a long way towards solving the terrorism problem in the future. Moreover, Greg has empowered women. Girls in these vilages are being educated alongside their brothers and cousins. Some of these women are going on to higher education and coming back and serving their communities in ways that were improbably a mere decade ago. more here (http://hereticdhammasangha.wordpress.com/2008/05/03/three-cups-of-tea/)
