Support the Central Asia Institute (CAI)  and its efforts to build schools, mostly for girls, in some of Pakistan’s most remote areas.

The Executive Director of the CAI is Greg Mortenson.  A mountain climber by passion, Mortenson attempted to scale K2, the World’s second tallest peak in northern Pakistan.  He was unsuccessful in reaching the summit and during his descent he became separated from his climbing party and ended up in a remote village called Korphe in the foot of the Himalaya Mountains.  Upon seeing the poor conditions of the village and how its children did not have regular classroom education, Mortenson pledged to return one day and build a school.

Within a few years Mortenson fulfilled his pledge and built the school for the villagers as he had promised.  Greg Mortenson went on to become Director of the Central Asia Institute and has since built more schools in Pakistan and also Afghanistan.

Greg Mortenson’s story has been chronicled in a book he co-authored with David Oliver Relin.  The book, a New York Times Best-Seller, is titled Three Cups of Tea, One Man's Mission to Promote Peace...One School at a Time.  The story is remarkable and truly uplifting.

Visit the Central Asia Institute website at: www.ikat.org as well as Pennies for Peace at: www.penniesforpeace.org/home.html 

and support these important and worthy missions.