AN EVENING WITH
GREG MORTENSON Co-author of the number-one bestseller Three Cups of Tea: One Man’s Mission to Promote Peace… One School at a Time, Greg Mortenson is a humanitarian, international peacemaker, former mountaineer, and co-founder of the nonprofit Central Asia Institute, which promotes education, especially for girls, in remote regions of Pakistan and Afghanistan. Mortenson has gone on to establish more than 90 schools in rural and often volatile regions of those two countries. Through his nonprofits, the Central Asia Institute and Pennies for Peace, Mortenson has built schools that provide a rare opportunity for education to more than 38,000 children, including 27,000 girls.
Three Cups of Tea has sold more than three million copies in 34 countries. It has been used in more than 90 colleges and universities as a freshman, honors or campus-wide read. His recent book, Stones into Schools: Promoting Peace with Books, Not Bombs, in Afghanistan and Pakistan, is a sequel to Three Cups of Tea. >> www.stonesintoschools.com
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 13, 8 P.M. $45, $35, $25 $125. Includes private, pre-talk reception with Greg Mortenson to benefit Marin County Library Foundation.
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“Greg Mortenson’s dangerous and difficult quest to build schools in the wildest parts of Pakistan and Afghanistan is proof that one ordinary person... really can change the world.” Tom Brokaw
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