Two American Heroes - Making a World of Difference

In the 21 century, human beings face full situations in health and literacy. some(prenominal) people, particularly in Haiti and Afghanistan, argon anxious(p) from some in force(p) diseases like tuberculosis and malaria, and too the literacy rate is low. To alleviate these situations, capital of Minnesota Farmer and Greg Mortenson, two Americans, atomic number 18 doing their best in Haiti and Afghanistan. Haiti is virtuoso of the poorest counties in the instauration and legion(predicate) people are dying of curable diseases. Since they do not have money to bring around their diseases, Farmer believes he should ease them. So, Dr. Paul Farmer went to Haiti. Afghanistan is excessively one of the poorest countries in the world so an another(prenominal) American, Mortensen, went to Afghanistan to framing schools and digest an education to children. This set about will deal with narrative, what they provide for people, the difficulties they face, and how they make money to co rroboration it.\nMortenson and Farmer are the subjects of bestselling masss. Mortensons book, triad Cups of Tea is an autobiography. Mortensons book has sold much than 2.5 million copies and been published in 34 countries. On the other hands, Farmers book Mountains Beyond Mountains was written by Tracy Kidder and it is a biography. It has sold much than 100,000 in hardcover and 613,000 in paperback on 2008.\nThree Cups of Tea is about Mortensons story in Afghanistan. He is the co-founder of a nonprofit fundamental Asia Institute. In July 1992, his sister, Christa, died from epilepsy. To honor his sister, in 1993, he almost climbed K2, the foster highest mountain in the world. plot climbing, he met a mathematical group of children who lived in the village, Korphe. It is the turning height of his life. Children were sitting in the filth with sticks to solve the math problem, and Mortenson intractable to help them by edifice a school. After then, he returned to the US, rais ed money, went back Afghanistan to converge his promise and built a school especially for girls. But, subsequently he went back Afgha...