Three Cups of Tea is a nonfiction book in which author Greg Mortenson recounts the experiences that led him to co-found the Central Asia Institute, a non-profit organization that builds schools in remote areas of Afghanistan and Pakistan. While mountain climbing, Mortenson becomes lost and is taken in by the leader of a Pakistani village. In return, Mortenson promises to build a school, which ignited his passion to make education available to all children in this troubled region, especially girls.
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