Central Asia Institute
The Central Asia Institute (CAI) is a not-for- profit company co-founded by Greg Mortenson and Jean Hoerni . Her idea is to support girls in particular in remote regions of Pakistan and Afghanistan with reading learning and educational programs that have a community character. The institute's administrative headquarters are located in Bozeman , Montana , United States of America .
Services
The support services include:
- Establishment and promotion of 131 schools in rural Pakistan and Afghanistan
- Support of 687 full and part-time teachers
- Funding for 58,000 students, including 44,000 female students
- Training offers for victims of the earthquake in Pakistan. The October 2005 earthquake, which had a value of 7.8 on the Richter scale, killed 74,000 people, including 18,000 students, and destroyed 2.8 million homes. The CAI rebuilt 16 schools destroyed by these earthquakes.
Programs
A village must guarantee that at least ten percent of the girls in its village school go to school so that CAI can build a school there. “Mortenson believes, as do many experts, that providing education for girls directly helps to lower infant mortality and bring down birth rates – which in turn reduces the ignorance and poverty that help fuel religious extremism.” (German: Mortensen believes, like others Experts also suggest that education for girls directly helps lower child mortality and the birth rate, thereby reducing the ignorance and poverty that fuels religious extremism.)
CAI supports the Pennies for Peace program , in which schoolchildren help support the activities of the CAI fund with donations of pennies .
One of the pioneers of software development in Silicon Valley, Jean Hoerni, has been supporting the institute since 1996 and appointed Greg Mortenson as its first executive director.
Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin published a book on the history of CAI entitled Three Cups of Tea , which was recognized as a bestseller in 2006 by the New York Times .
In 2009, Greg Mortenson, co-founder of the Central Asia Institute, was honored with the Sitara-e-Pakistan (Star of Pakistan), the highest civilian award for humanistic achievement in Pakistan , for his humanistic work and educational support for girls .
Web links
- Official website of the CAI
- Three Cups of Tea
- Information on global.mongabay.com ( Memento from July 2, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ↑ About CAI: Central Asia Institute , accessed January 29, 2007
- ^ Homepage of the Central Asia Institute (scroll to map) , accessed on January 29, 2007
- ↑ "Author speaks of quest to aid the poor in Asia: Says education key to solution," ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Peter Smith, Courier-Journal , Louisville, Kentucky, accessed April 2, 2008
- ↑ "Devastation and hope: School promises brighter future for girls in Kashmir" ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as broken. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Karin Ronnow, Bozeman Daily Chronicle , accessed April 2, 2008
- ↑ Greg Mortenson Ibid, Fedarko , accessed 30 December 2009
- ↑ "What is the power of a penny?" At www.penniesforpeace.org ( memento of the original from February 7, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed December 30, 2009
- ↑ Students raise $ 3,700 in 'pennies for peace', ABC7News , KGO San Francisco ( Memento of the original from March 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed March 5, 2008
- ↑ "Paperback Nonfiction Bestsellers" , The New York Times , accessed 16 March 2008
- ↑ "'Three Cups of Tea' Talk of Town", Mansfield News ( memento of the original from August 26, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed February 21, 2008
- ^ "Mortenson receives Star of Pakistan," Bozeman Chronicle, accessed March 23, 2009
