Corphe
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 Pakistan
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| Province : | Gilgit-Baltistan | ||
| Coordinates : |
35 ° 41 ′ N , 75 ° 49 ′ E
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| Residents : | 400 (2006) | ||
| Time zone : |
PST ( UTC + 5 )
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Korphe is a small rural village in to Gilgit-Baltistan belonging Baltistan -Division in the north of Pakistan , located in the Karakoram that, on the banks of the river Braldu in Skardu district is located. The village lies between the village of Askole and the K2 , the second highest mountain on earth.
The village is of general interest in that it has a village school established by the Central Asia Institute (CAI). The CAI supports the founding and building of schools in remote areas of Pakistan and Afghanistan if the village community guarantees that at least ten percent of all village girls go to school. In addition, a spectacular suspension bridge was built over the Baldru River to give other students from surrounding villages, including Afghanistan, access to school lessons in the village. The school in Korphe was the first of 131 schools that the non-profit organization CAI established in Pakistan in 1996.
The place and the people who live there play a role in the book Three Cups of Tea by mountaineer Greg Mortenson and co-founder of the CAI, who previously climbed K2 because he wanted to forget his sister's death. At K2 he became seriously ill and two porters brought him to their house in Korphe, where he saw the plight of the population and a school class with numerous children without a teacher and school house, as the village costs one dollar a day for a teacher and for building a school couldn't muster.
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- ↑ Initiative of the CAI: Penny for Peace ( 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.
