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1. He was born in Minnesota, at age of eleven he climbed Mount Kilimanjaro, and just after Greg's fourteenth birthday, the hospital his father had worked so hard to create was ready to open.

2. His mother is principal of Westside Elementary School and she asked Greg to come to her school and tell them the children of Korphe.

3. Hoerni gave check for twelve thousand dollars

He climbed a mountain when he was eleven, survived a 800 feet fall and his father opened his own hospital.

He goes to a school and tells the kids about it.

Jean Hoerni donated 12 grand to Greg for the school.
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1) Mortenson was born in Minnesota, taught a girls' school in Tanzania, had 3 sisters (Kari, Sonja Joy, and Christa), climbed Mount Kilamanjaro when he was 11 years old, and trained as a medic in Germany.
2)By sending letters to famous people asking for a donation, went to his mother, a school principal, to tell the kids about Korphe and collecting donations for them, and asking a very, very rich man named Jean Hoerni for donations.
3)Hoerni donated most of the money needed to create the school.
Kishwar helps Greg by showing him how to use the computer, thus helping him type letters faster than by a typewriter.

1. He was born in Africa, he had a sister that got very sick when she was three, and he climbed Kilimanjaro
2. He sends letters out to famous people, and he dose get the twelve thousand dollars he needs
3.  they helped him raise money

1.His dad founded the Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Center, he climbed Kilimanjaro when he was 11,and he learned to speak Swahili perfectly.
2.He writes letters and receives some checks.He was successful in the end, when a rich man named Jean Hoerni decided to help him.
3.Syed helped him write letters and thaught him how to type.Jean Hoerni gave Greg a 12grand check.

1. He was born in Minnesota. then climbed Mount Kilimanjaro.On his 14th birthday his dads hospital was ready to open.
2.He writes some letters and gets some checks and a Rich man named Jean Hoerni helped him.
3.Kishwa helped him learn how to type on his computer and then a surprise happens when Jean Hoerni give him 12 grand money.

1. Greg Mortenson was born in Minnesota. When he was 3 months old his parents took him to Tanganyika, Africa. When he was 11 he climbed mountain Kilimanjaro. His father was building a hospital too.
2. Mortenson tries to raise money by telling his mother who was a principle at a school to help him build schools for that poor country. He was successful and had just enough money to build some schools. Kishwar Syed and Jean Hoerni even gave him 12 thousand dollars.
3. Kishwar Syed and Jean Hoerni gave Greg Mortenson 12 thousand dollars.

1. His mother, Jerene, was pregnant with him and they moved to Africa. When he climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro and looked down the summit from the mountain he became hooked on climbing mountains. On July 24th 1992,he fell nearly 800 vertical feet, and when he called his mother she told him his sister, Christa, was dead.

2. He sent letters to anyone who had money and might want to help. At first he was far short of the twelve thousand dollars he'd figured he'd need to build a school, even with his mother's school's donation, but then he found the American Himalayan Foundation. One of the climbers at the foundation, Jean Hoerni, donated the twelve thousand dollars Greg needed to build his school.

3. Kishwar Syed taught him how to use a computer which helped him send 580 letters, and  Jean Hoerni donated the twelve thousand dollars Mortenson needed to build his school.

1.he climbed mt.Kilimanjaro he was perfective of his sis he grew up in africa.
2. he writes to several stares asking for money.
3. kishwar taught him how to use a computer and hoerni gave him twelve grand.

1.
~ Greg was protective of his sister.
~ He learned how to climb mountains.
~ He knew how to speak different languages.
2.
Greg's mother (the principal of an Elementary school in River Falls, Wisconsin) asked Greg to teach the children in that school about the children in Korphe and what he was trying to do for him. Greg soon found out he was successful. The children wanted to help, so they started a Pennies for Pakistan.
3.
 Kishwar Syed helped Greg learn how to use a computer properly. That helped Greg send all the letters to famous people that he thought would be genorous enough to donate. Jean Hoerni donated the money that Greg needed to build the school. Both people played an important role in Greg's mission.

1.Greg climbed a mountain, born in Minnesota, and his dad opened a hospital.
2. He went to an elementary school and told about it, he also sent letters to famous people. In the end he was successful.
3. Syed teaches him to use a computer and gives him a check for twelve thousand dollars  

he was born in Minnesota, at elveven he climbed mount kilimanjaro and he fell off a mountain
he asked people to give him money yes
giving him all the money he needs
 his mom was principal of a school

1. List three important details from Mortenson's childhood.
 
2. How does Mortenson try to raise money for the school? Is he successful?
 
3. What roles do Kishwar Syed and Jean Hoerni play in Mortenson's fund-raising?


answer: #1. First, he went to Africa. Then, he celebrated many holidays. Last, he had 3 sisters.

#2. He typed letters and gave them to many people. He even gave them to famous people.

#3. Kishwar Syed had helped him with 580 letters and Jean Hoerni gave him $10,000.

1.Greg's sister struggled with a disease, he was born in Minnisota, and Greg['s dad opened a hospital.
2. Greg sent checks to many people even the famous, but not all poeple sent back money to help him.
3.they donated money and helped type or write letters.

1.Greg was born in Minnesota.
2.He was protective of his sister.
3. He could speak many languages.

1) He was born in Minnessota.He has a great adventure at Tanganyika in African.Gregs climb K2.

2)He wrote a letter receive a check.At the end they was successful.

3)They raise they money.

1. He climbed Africa's highest mountain ,Mt.Kilimanjaro, when he was 11, he was very protective of his sister, and knew many different languages.

2. Greg tried to raise money by sending out a whole lot of letters to people he knew had money, and asked kids and their school to donate. Yes, so far because a very rich man gave him the money he needed to build the school.

3. Jean Hoerni was the very rich man that I just mentioned that gave Greg the money and Kishwar Syed taught Greg how to use a computer, so he was able to write all 580 letters in 1 day.

1.Was born in Minnesota,sister had died of a disease,builds a school.

2.He asks people that are famous to donate.


3.Jean Hoerni donated 12,000 to Greg.

1.He climbed a mountains at a young age,he was very protective of his little sisters,born in Minnesota.

2.he mails out 580 letters asking for money and got a little $ out of it not successful.


3. they send him a check of 12 thousands $

1. He was very protective of his sister.
-He was born in Minnesota.
-He liked climbing.
2.He came back to America and started Pennies for Peace and he was successful.
3.Syed donated the most money and Jean taught Greg how to use the computer.

1).he knew how to climb mountains:he was very protective over his younger sister:he also knew how to get along with kids from other countries
2).He writes letters saying that he would like to raise money but at first he doesn't really succeed, but he gradually gets more money
3). Jean Hoerni gave him a 12 thousand dollar check, and Kishwar Syed helped him with the computer issue

[1] Greg was interested in climbing mountains, he could easily learn different languages, and he was protective and nice to his little sister, Christa.
[2] Greg send letters to people asking them to donate money to build a school in Korphe. Also, Greg's mother is a teacher ,so she asked her students to collect money for Korphe. He gets little ,little money at a time but adding them together he soon gets enough money to build a school.
[3] Kishwar Syed helps Greg learn how to use the computer so he can send letters to collect money. Jean Hoerni gave him a check of 12 thousand dollars.

1. He was born in Minnesota, he knew dif. languages, his sister.

2. He sent 580 letters to people to get money but failed.

3. They teach him to use a computer & send him money.