三杯茶 Three Cups of Tea
格里格莫坦 Sen (Greg Mortenson) is an emergency room nurse, also a climber (Mountaineer). His father was a missionary (Missionary), in Grieg’s three months old when the family came to lead Africa Tanzania, where the construction of a hospital. Grieg until the age of 14, the family before returning to the United States.
But before the final ascent, climbers five people there is a sick person, Grieg and one other person had to escort a sick teammate down. Because tired, can not continue to climb down the mountain had to regret the decision. Results on the way down, Grieg unfortunately lost, and nearly died. Finally arrived at the edge of a remote canyon small village Kophe, where a warm welcome, and there rest adjustment.
Where the students are not classrooms, the school is a piece of land in the village. Students without books and other school supplies, writing is zoned with branches on the ground. Grieg was deeply shocked, he suddenly felt on the world’s peak, his sister’s necklace hanging in the peak has been no less important. More importantly, he must come back for Kophe build a school.
After returning to the US, in addition to his work, live frugally to save money, but also full of donations. Finally, the father of silicon transistors, the millionaire Jean Hoerni’s help, finally, after almost a year with 10,005 one thousand US dollars back Kophe. But to get there only to find, to build schools, you must first build a bridge, in order to build the school’s material transported inside.
After many setbacks, Grieg back and forth in the United States and Pakistan, has experienced difficulties and obstacles, bridges and schools finally made good. He decided to climb the mountain humanitarian, bringing education to bring peace, makes more sense than to climb the peak of the world. For which he won the trust of Jean Hoerni, before its death, recommended the establishment of CAI (Central Asia Institute), and donated $ 1 million to the fund, so do Grieg director of CAI (Director), in order to establish a more in Pakistan many schools.
To this end, Grieg visited many remote mountainous areas of Pakistan and Afghanistan to build schools. Hovering at the edge of death several times, had been kidnapped a Muslim extremist group, suffered gang warfare and so on. To 2010, CAI in Grieg’s leadership, in Pakistan and Afghanistan to build the 171 schools, providing educational opportunities for children 60 004 thousand, of which 50,004 thousand girls. In those places, before the girl is no right to go to school education.
Grieg think girls’ education is extremely important, because the girl in the future should become a mother, and the mother of knowledge will value their children’s education. Education and knowledge will bring peace. It is called “the hand that rocks the cradle is the hand to promote the world.”
This is an ordinary person on a book on how to change the world. UN Ambassador for Peace, Dr. Jean Goodall in Tanzania study gorillas say “Grieg’s contribution to world peace than trying to change the larger force and war in the world.”
Although the language of the book is very simple and obvious, nor plot twists and turns, but hidden inside is extremely valuable things, such as seamless integration between people, loyalty, courage, and love. Haji Ali to be a person like family Grieg. Grieg climbers who saved porter, Mouzafer later work in CAI said “I Promised to Protect HIM (Greg)
There in the heart of the world has lost a rare pure simple life and happiness, such as summer night, Grieg and Haji Ali’s son Twaha chat on the roof, the stars and the cool night air to accompany them to sleep.
“Three Cups of Tea,” the title comes from the Haji Ali clan Balti custom: the first and the Balti people drank tea with a stranger, the second cup of tea together, is the guest of honor, and the third drink together is a person. In love, we are all one people.
