Key to Afghan crisis: tea and education

Greg Mortenson, author of ‘Three Cups of Tea,’ https://www.ikat.org/ says success lies in building trust and schools in rural Afghanistan.

Greg Mortenson doesn’t need to rely on think tanks or arcane policy documents to find the road to a better Afghanistan.

The mountaineer-turned-school builder from Montana – recently nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize – depends on what might be called his own show-of-hands index, based on his visits to speak with children in the United States and Afghanistan. In the past few months alone, he’s spoken to tens of thousands of them.

By Todd Wilkinson | Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor

Full Story: http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/1204/p07s01-wome.html

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