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Greg Mortenson comes to Greeley!
Greg Mortenson, author of Three Cups of Tea, will be speaking in Greeley at the
UNC Butler Hancock Pavilion on February 10 at 3:30 pm. Free tickets for the
public will be available beginning January 27 at the University Center, 20th
Street and 10th Avenue. There is a limit of two tickets per person. Three Cups
of Tea was the featured book for the 2009 Common Read community-wide reading
initiative.
TV newscaster, Tom Brokaw, calls Mortenson, "one ordinary person, with the right
combination of character and determination, who is really changing the world."
We invite you to meet the man who made a promise to build a school for Pakistani
children while recovering from climbing Pakistan's K2 in memory of his sister.
From that rash promise grew a remarkable humanitarian campaign, in which
Mortenson has dedicated his life to promote education, especially for girls, in
remote regions of Pakistan and Afghanistan. As of 2009, Mortenson has
established over 90 schools in rural and often volatile regions of Pakistan and
Afghanistan to provide education to over 34,000 children, including 24,000
girls, where few education opportunities existed before. His work has not been
without difficulty. He survived an armed kidnapping by the Taliban, escaped a
firefight with feuding Afghans, endured CIA investigations, and also received
threats from fellow Americans after 9/11 for helping educate Muslim children.
Mortenson is a living hero to rural communities of Afghanistan and Pakistan,
where he has gained the trust of Islamic leaders, military commanders,
government officials and tribal chiefs from his tireless effort to champion
education, especially for girls.
Library Closings
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closed on Monday, February 15 for Presidents' Day and Friday, February 26 for a District Staff Day.
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