And they did it with something that is basicly worthless in our society - pennies. But overseas, pennies can move mountains
And they did it with something that is basicly worthless in our society - pennies. But overseas, pennies can move mountains
Just as the Torah and Bible teach concern for those in distress, the Koran instructs all Muslims to make caring for widows, orphans, and refugees a priority.
The Balti had as many names for rock as the Inuit have for snow.
The older I get, the more I appreciate my childhood. It was paradise.
The tune was too ingrained for Mortenson to consider the novelty of this moment- an American, lost in Pakistan, singing a German hymn in Swahili.
What we are trying to do may be just a drop in the ocean, but the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.
We're trying to plug in democracy. You can't do that. You can't just tell people to vote. You have to put in education, and land ownership.
Once you educate the boys, they tend to leave the villages and go search for work in 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.
They raised 62,340 pennies. These kids, in all their purity and innocence, were reaching out to kids halfway around the world.
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