Boarding Schools for Girls

Greg Mortenson, an unofficial advisor to the U.S. military and the co-author of Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace. . . One School at a Time, has been included in U.S. News & World Reports list of Americas Best Leaders 2009.

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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Working under the guidance of one of their peers, 30 students from a Quaker day and boarding school in Great Britain decorated and displayed a rainbow of umbrellas during a peace vigil during the nations Quaker Schools Week.

An Oct. 14 article in The York Press provided the following details about the project:

Anna Webster, 17, a pupil at The Mount School, in Dalton Terrace, said she was inspired to run a silent vigil in which about 30 participants carried umbrellas featuring all the colours of the spectrum, after learning about Matt Lamb Umbrellas For Peace Project  which promotes inclusivity.

She said: I thought that it would be a really positive thing for people to do; individuals could think about what peace means to them, and all stand and support each other in our views with a silent vigil. It could be a striking statement about our commitment to peace and also a lot of fun."

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