In an Oct. 22 article, writer Anna Mulrine describes Mortensens efforts to achieve peace in Afghanistan by increasing opportunities for girls to access quality education:
Pennies for Peace will be in some 20,000 schools next year, giving rise to what Mortenson hopes will become a new generation of leaders in the United States who will take up the cause of global education.
"Women who have an education are not likely to condone their son getting into violence," he says. "I've seen that very vividly."
In Afghanistan in 2000, there were 800,000 children in school, nearly all boys. Today, there are 8.4 million children in school, including 2.5 million girls.
"That's the greatest increase in school enrollment of any country in modern history, but very few people in America seem to be aware of it." Mortenson hopes to remedy that through his work in the years to come.
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