Gifts7:30 pm - 4:00 pm, March 3rd to December 31st
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Please note: This event is now sold out.
When: Wednesday, March 3, 2010, 7:30 pm (doors open at 6:30 pm, enter through the Action Center).
Where: Mercy Corps Action Center Community Room, 28 SW 1st Avenue, Portland, Oregon, 97204, 503-896-5002.
Tickets: Online - $12 (includes ticket-handling fee), go to www.brownpapertickets.com/event/99031; $10.00 in person at the Action Center Gift Shop, 28 SW 1st Avenue, Portland, OR, 11 am – 5 pm, Tuesday – Friday; noon – 5 pm, Saturday). For more information, please call 503-896-5002.
Captivating and suspenseful, with engrossing accounts of both hostilities and unlikely friendships, this book will win many readers’ hearts (Publisher’s Weekly).
Award-winning investigative journalist David Relin has focused on reporting about social issues and their effect on children, both in the U.S. and around the world.
In his best-selling book Three Cups of Tea: One Man’s Mission to Promote Peace…One School at a Time, Relin tells the story of Greg Mortenson, an American mountain climber and nurse who becomes an unlikely champion of education through the accidental relationship he developed with a village in a remote region of Karakoram of Pakistan while on his way home from a failed attempt to reach the summit of K2.
Through this account of a monumental humanitarian endeavor, Mortenson and Relin offer hope by demonstrating that collaborative efforts to alleviate poverty and improve access to education in Pakistan and Afghanistan—particularly for girls—can be one of the most effective means of countering Islamic extremism in the region.
A New York Times bestseller in 2007, Three Cups of Tea was also selected as Time Magazine’s Asia Book of the Year and as a Critic’s Choice by People Magazine. Awarded the Teaching/Writing Fellowship at the Iowa Writer’s Workshop, Relin also received a Michener Fellowship to support his 1992 bicycle trip the length of Viet Nam. He spent two more years there reporting on Viet Nam’s continued transformation from an isolated and exceedingly poor country to one in which industry and agriculture thrived and tourists were welcomed.
Relin will sign audience members’ copies of Three Cups of Tea after the presentation.
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