Greg Mortenson grew up in Africa | | collected "Pennies for Peace" to build a school. |
In the army he served | | had established 130 schools in two countries. |
Mortenson graduated from the University | | he would build a school. for them. |
He had a climbing accident | | in the country of Tanganyika. |
The people in the village of Korphe | | as a medic in Germany. |
To repay their kindness he | | only the newsman Tom Brokaw responded. |
He promised the people of the village | | at the very time his sister died of a seizure. |
When he sent out letters to raise money | | by a rich man named Jean Hoerni. |
The students in his mother's school | | of South Dakota. |
The first school was funded | | were kind to him and cared for him. |
The trip up the mountain to take the supplies | | gave them his coats and his stove. |
As of 2009 the Institute | | was dangerous and hard. |