Three Cups of Tea

Inspired by an experience with school-aged children in Pakistan in 1993, Mortenson began a lifelong humanitarian campaign promoting education in remote regions of Pakistan and Afghanistan — especially for girls. Since then, he has established more than 131 schools in often volatile rural areas of those two countries.
“Just fighting terrorism or those who promote terrorism is based in fear, but promoting peace is based in hope,” Mortenson said. “The real enemy we all face in Africa, in Afghanistan and here in America, the real enemy is ignorance – and ignorance breeds hatred.”

Source: St. John's University (NY)
January 27 2010

Your task
Watch the two videos shown below.
a. http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=7193877
b. http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/28775441/


Using your journal book, reflect on the discussion questions.
1.Why does Greg decide to build a school for the children of Korphe?
2. In whose honour does Greg intend to build the school?
3. If you want to honour someone special to you, what would you like to accomplish and for whom?


To learn more about the book and the wonderful work of Greg and his daughter, visit the following sites:
http://www.threecupsoftea.com/
http://www.penniesforpeace.org/
http://www.ikat.org/

Happy reading!