Problems Faced By Greg While Building a School

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Problems faced by Greg Mortenson while building a school at Korphe village Introduction: After getting lost on the way back from K2, Greg Mortenson found a village near Askole called Korphe village. During his stay at Korphe village Greg realized that village has no school and cannot afford a teacher. But the zealous children of Korphe village try to study by themselves, starching arithmetic problems on the ground using a stick. Seeing all this promised Haji Ali, the chief of Korphe village, that he will return and build a school in Korphe. Problems: 2. Dispute over the development of school: When Greg reached Skardu and stored the supplies for the school in Changazi’s warehouse. On the insistence of Akhmalu, Greg visited Akhmalu’s village Khane where he found himself a part of unexpected dispute. The two groups of Kahne village were fighting over an whether Greg should build a school for children at Khane or a school for Balti porters at Khane. Gerg was deceived. He tried to tell the villagers that he was going to build a school at Korphe but they wouldn’t listen. The next morning before the dispute starts again he left the village with Changazi who then took him to his own village Kuardu where Greg again was faced with another feast and another campaign to get the school. This made Greg very angry and he stromed out of the room. This really shows what kind of oddities Greg have to face for the school. He realized that he cannot trust even the people he knew. This made everything more difficult for him. 3. The Bridge problem: When Greg finally reached Korphe village he realized that in order to transfer the supplies to Korphe a big stone bridge is needed to be build over the Braldu river which separated Korphe from the main land. This was a major setback in the development of the school. The building of the bridge would require dynamite, steel cables and
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