...MY heart is full...
There is a man
I was privileged honored, and oh so moved to meet last night.
A true king among men.
He has dedicated a good part of his humble life
on a quest to address poverty...
educate girls...
and overcome cultural divides
in the craggy, often unforgiving
and remote mountain regions of Pakistan and Afghanistan.
Where girls are often not allowed to go to school...
where the illiteracy rate of females is 58%.
"Educate a boy, and your educate an individual. Educate a girl,
and you educate a community. "
~African proverb
Who believes that
our best hope for a peaceful and prosperous world ...
our best hope for a peaceful and prosperous world ...
lies in the education of all the world’s children...Especially the girls.
It is the girls who will become the mothers,
who will not allow their
boys to choose death over life.
Replacing guns with pencils,
rhetoric with reading.
one stone at a time.
It is a slow process,
humbling and dangerous.
But he is welcomed into each community.
building relationships...slowly, surely.
The tribe invests in each school...each student.
poor and malnourished, but all eager to learn and get educated.
on their shoulders...
They do it for their future.
with the right combination of character and determination,
really can change the world.
Godspeed Greg Mortenson.
Want to be inspired to move?
to change?
to help?
read the book :
Peace.
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