What do you think of Greg Mortensen and his two books of Afghanistan?
Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time
Stones into Schools: Promoting Peace with Books, Not Bombs, in Afghanistan and Pakistan
'Greg Mortenson: Today there are 78 million female children who can't go to school (120 million children in total) because of slavery, poverty, religious extremism, gender discrimination, and human trafficking. When a girl gets an education to at least a fifth-grade level, three important things happen: Infant mortality drops significantly, population explosion is curbed, and the basic quality of health improves dramatically.
From my own perspective, the first thing that happens is that girls teach their mothers how to read and write. Boys tend to just learn for themselves. Girls immediately start teaching their mothers. It spreads like wildfire.'