Greg Mortenson
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January 01, 1957
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Montana, The United States
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Biographies & Memoirs
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Greg Mortenson (born 1957) is a mountain climber, former U.S. Army medic, and humanitarian from Bozeman, Montana. From 1958 to 1973, Mortenson grew up on the slopes of Mt. Kilimanjaro in northern Tanzania, where his father Dempsey Mortenson was the founder and development director of the Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Center. His mother, Dr. Jerene Mortenson, founded the International School Moshi.
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Greg Mortenson on tour for the book "Three Cups of Tea"
Author appearance, December 03, 2009 07:00PM
Sixth and I Synagogue, 600 I Street NW, Washington, DC, The United States
Greg Mortenson on tour for the book "Three Cups of Tea"
Author appearance, December 03, 2009 07:00PM
Sixth and I Synagogue, 600 I Street NW, Washington, DC, The United States
Greg Mortenson on tour for the book "Three Cups of Tea"
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"Educate a boy, and your educate and individual. Educate a girl, and you educate a community.
African proverb via Greg Mortensen "
— Greg Mortenson (Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time)
African proverb via Greg Mortensen "
— Greg Mortenson (Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time)
"You can hand out condoms, drop bombs, build roads, or put in electricity, but until the girls are educated a society won’t change."
— Greg Mortenson
— Greg Mortenson
"Once you educate the boys, they tend to leave the villages and go search for work in the cities, but the girls stay home, become leaders in the community, and pass on what they’ve learned. If you really want to change a culture, to empower women, improve basic hygiene and health care, and fight high rates of infant mortality, the answer is to educate girls."
— Greg Mortenson (Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time)
— Greg Mortenson (Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time)
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