Three Cups of Tea

Three Cups of Tea is the best book I have read in a long time! It is the true story of Greg Mortensen and the inspiring way he has found to promote peace (fight terrorism) in a nonviolent, cost-effective, BETTER way -- by educating children. Here's a blurb from his website:

"In 1993, to honor his sister’s memory, Mortenson climbed Pakistan’s K2, the world’s second highest mountain in the Karakoram range.

After K2, while recovering in a local village called Korphe, Mortenson met a group of children sitting in the dirt writing with sticks in the sand, and made a promise to help them build a school.

From that rash promise, grew a remarkable humanitarian campaign, in which Mortenson has dedicated his life to promote education and literacy, especially for girls, in remote, volatile regions of Pakistan and Afghanistan."

It is an amazing, uplifting story perfect for book clubs and a great way to start out the new year. If you order the book from Amazon via the following website some of the proceeds will be used to support his work building schools. Here it is:

http://www.threecupsoftea.com/