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NBC's Making a Difference told the story of Greg Mortenson, a mountaineer who failed to climb K-2 and stumbled into a remote Pakistani village, "emaciated, weak, exhausted." He returned two years later with funds to build a school there. "Once he was kidnapped by the Taliban. Twice angry mullahs issued supreme religious edicts banishing him," narrated John Larson. "It turned out the local commandant had a daughter in the school. With local support his forces imprisoned the Taliban and all the schoolkids were back in class in two days." Mortenson's fundraising has built 69 schools in the Himalayan foothills so far, with another 400 villages on his waiting list.
Would love to have a video of the Making a difference to show to my book club. Our current read is "Three Cups of Tea"!
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