Students from Michigan Tech's Taking Education Abroad group raised nearly $80 for Greg Mortenson's Central Asia Institute at their bake sale held during the D80 Conference at Michigan Tech on Oct. 17, 2009. Pictured here are, from left, Brandi Lundquist, Jessica Banda and Erin Collins.HOUGHTON -- Michigan Tech's Taking Education Abroad student group will have a fund-raising activity for Greg Mortenson's Central Asia Institute from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. this Saturday, Nov. 7, while they volunteer their time to bag groceries at Econo-Foods in Houghton.
Do your grocery shopping at that time so students can receive a percentage of your receipt to help Mortenson's work of building schools, especially for girls, in remote areas of Pakistan and Afghanistan, as he describes in his book, Three Cups of Tea. The students will also be accepting donations at a table in Econo-Foods.
Michigan Tech students read the book through the university's Reading as Inquiry program in 2008 and were inspired to form a group to support Mortenson's work after he spoke here in August 2008.*
The student group recently raised nearly $80 at a bake sale they held during the D80 Conference at Michigan Tech. The group is also collecting used copies of Three Cups of Tea to be distributed to students in local schools. On Halloween they gave out coupons for the free books. In December they plan to have a raffle for a significant prize to be announced soon.
Mortenson has written a second book, Stones into Schools: Promoting Peace with Books, Not Bombs, in Afghanistan and Pakistan. It will be released on December 1, 2009.
*For more information about the Taking Education Abroad group and Greg Mortenson's work, see our Feb. 2, 2009 article. To learn about the Central Asia Institute and see photos and videos of Mortenson, his schools and students, visit their Web site.
Editor's Note: If you have a used copy of Three Cups of Tea to donate, please contact Keweenaw Now at andersm@pasty.com or Jessica Banda at jebanda@mtu.edu.
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