They know yak: Carousel for Missoula carvers helping out Pennies for Peace

With an aim of piling up pennies for peace, a group of carvers at the Carousel for Missoula have ponied up a yak.

She stands about 18 inches tall at the tip of her blunted horns, a bundle of hand tools laid across her back, atop a cobblestone pedestal littered with school supplies: crayons and notepads, a ruler and a book. Carved from the wood of a linden tree, she doesn’t move or say anything.

Rather, she leaves the message to the book at her feet: “Three Cups of Tea,” https://www.ikat.org/ the bestseller by Bozeman author and humanitarian Greg Mortenson.

That book, which chronicles Mortenson’s motivation in raising money to build dozens of schools in remote areas of Pakistan and Afghanistan, has inspired a group of local activists to raise $50,000 in Missoula and the surrounding region to fund construction of a new school in one of the most impoverished regions of central Asia.

By JOE NICKELL of the Missoulian

Full Story: http://missoulian.com/news/local/article_21be3e74-3fa7-11df-b02b-001cc4c03286.html

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Much more about the Central Asia Institute: http://matr.net/news.phtml?cat_id=106&catlabel=Three+Cups+of+Tea+-+The+Central+Asia+Institute