Improving literacy rate.

2.  Greg Mortenson (born December 27, 1957) is an
American humanitarian, professional speaker, writer, and former
mountaineer. He is a co-founder and former executive director of
the non-profit Central Asia Institute and the founder of the
educational charity Pennies for Peace.[Since 1993, he has been
working in Pakistan, and later in Afghanistan and Tajikistan to
promote education, and build schools, especially for girls. The
dedication of both Mortenson and CAI's to improving the lives of
thousands of girls has been documented by respected
philanthropists beginning as early as 2001.
 Mortenson is the co-author of The New York Times
Bestsellers, Three Cups of Tea, which stayed on the New York
Times bestseller list for 220 weeks. Three Cups of Tea has been
published in over 29 languages. He is also the author of Stones
into Schools: Promoting Peace with Books, Not Bombs, in
Afghanistan and Pakistan.

3.  Mortsenson was born in 1957 in St. Cloud, Minnesota. His father, Irvin
"Dempsey" and mother, Jerene, went with the Lutheran Church to
Tanganyika (now Tanzania) in 1958 to be teachers in at a girl's school in
the Usambara mountains. In 1961, Dempsey became a fundraiser and
development director for the Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Center, the
first teaching hospital in Tanzania. Jerene was the founding principal of
International School Moshi. Spending his early childhood and
adolescence in Tanzania, Mortenson learned to speak fluent Swahili.
 In the early 1970s, when he was 15 years old, Mortenson and his family
left Tanzania and moved back to Minnesota. He attended Ramsey High
School in Roseville, Minnesota, from 1973 to 1975, where he graduated.
 After high school, Mortenson served in the U.S. Army in Germany from
1975 to 1977 and was awarded the Army Commendation Medal.
Following his discharge, he attended Concordia College in Moorhead,
Minnesota, from 1977 to 1979 on an athletic (football) scholarship. In 1978,
Concordia College's football team won the NAIA Division III national
championship with a 7-0 win over Findlay, Ohio. Mortenson graduated
from the University of South Dakota in 1983 with a bachelor's degree
in liberal studies and an associate's degree in nursing.

4.  Stones into Schools: Promoting Peace with Books, Not
Bombs, in Afghanistan and Pakistan is a New York
Times bestselling book by Greg Mortenson published
by Viking in 2009. The book is the sequel to the
bestselling book Three Cups of Tea and tells the story of
Mortenson's humanitarian efforts to build schools in
Pakistan and Afghanistan with his non-profit charity
organization, Central Asia Institute (CAI). CAI reports
that as of 2010, it has overseen the building over 171
schools in the two countries. These schools reportedly
provide education to over 64,000 children, including
54,000 girls, where few education opportunities existed
before in the remote regions of Pakistan and
Afghanistan.

5.  Greg Mortenson has had a positive impact on
the world. His work with the CAI has directly
impacted kids (and adults) in Afghanistan and
Pakistan. He has raised awareness of the
importance of educating girls in places with
poverty. His books have even been adopted by
the American government to advise on how to
communicate effectively with people in
northern Pakistan and Afghanistan without
using guns.

6.  http://stonesintoschools.com/
 http://www.theherohandbook.com/greg-mortenson-used-
to-be-my-hero/
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stones_into_Schools
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_Mortenson
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