"Three Cups of Tea"

[Dangerosa]

@DMark

I apologize - I really should stop ragging on this book, as it most certainly is a worthwhile read, and Greg has done some good work.
I guess I was mostly pissed off as, having worked for a large charity, I read the book and kept thinking how many missed opportunities he had for making far more money, and how many things he did were without the use of basic computer knowledge and other simple things that could have brought him far more success.

All the same, for those of you who have yet to read the book - I strongly suggest doing so. You might agree with me that he could have done things differently, but you will see that he certainly tried, as best he could, to accomplish some simple goals. And for the most part, he succeeded in his modest goals quite nicely.

But when he started he wasn’t a large charity…he was one guy with no money, very little experience raising money, who had made a promise. And yeah, he made a LOT of mistakes, but the admirable part of the story is that he never let his mistakes stop him. He turned that promise into a large charitable organization - and has increased the understanding of American schoolkids of the Muslim world. My ten year old daughter participated in THREE independent Pennies for Peace campaigns in the past eighteen months, she can tell you a lot about how kids in Central Asia don’t have pencils and how girls are often not educated - but how they are WILLING to educate girls as well as boys if they have resources.