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1.He was just like his dad. He went to high school and went to football. He then went to the military.


2.He raised money by going to the military and he was successful.



3.Syed helped by writing letters and finding who to write to. Jean helped by being rich and getting tools and money from. 

1) He was a good climber because he grew up next to Mt. Kilimanjaro, he was so helpful because he grew up helping people of Tanzania, he was a Nurse because his sis was gave a disease and he wanted to help her.

2) Yes, He tried to live as cheaply as possible and asked many people to help including the American Himalayan Foundation.

3) Syed, a man from Pakistan, teaches him to use a computer that he uses to send out letters asking for money. Jean Hoerni, a rich man who invented how to store info on a computer chip, gave Greg $12,000 for the school.

1. At the age of 11 Mortenson climbed Mount Kilimanjaro. His dad opened a hospital for the Africans. He graduated from the University of South Dakota so of course he was happy..  

2.Mortenson asked famous people to give him money. He also asked the American Humaun Society. It was called pennis for peace.

3.Kishwar Syed gave him 12,000 dollars for him to buy the supplies to make the school with. Jean Huasni teaches Greg how to type on the computer.  

1.His sister was very ill and needed a lot of help,he went to a high school with African Americans(he also got bullied there.) He went to the Concardia College, in Minnesota.

2.He asks famous people all over the world asking for money. He was successful he got a check for Twelve thousand dollars just the right amount to build a school for the children of Korphe.

3. Hoerni sent Greg a check for Twelve thousand dollars. Syed helped Greg send out 580 letters by showing him how to to .type on a computer

1. One important detail of Greg's childhood is that he lived in Africa, and learn to speak Swahili.
2. For him to raise money for the school, he wrote 580 letters to famous people like Michael Jackson. His mom was a principal in a school at Wisconsin. He went there and talked to the kids there. The kids started raising money, and called it, Pennies for Pakistan. The raised 62,345 pennies! He also talked to a scientist that is probably really rich right now. That scientist sent Greg $12,000 in check. Even though he got the money to build a school, he needed money for the plane. He sold books, and finally he sold his car.
3. They helped Greg raise money for the fundraising.

1. He tried to climb mountain K2 and got sick and weakened. He also had 3 sisters, and one of his sisters died. 2. He typed letters. 3. Syed helped him sent all the letters and Jean got all the money for Greg.

1.he went on adventures with his parents,he went to school with many different  kids from many different countries,and he was trained as a medic
2.he rents a type writer and types 580 letters and he was successful at getting12 thousand dollars.
3.kishwar syed taught him how t use a computer

!st question=                                                                          1. When he was only three months old, his parents took him along on the great adventure of their lives: working as a teacher in a girls' school in the African country of Tanganyika.

2. His sister, Christa, began having seizures when she was eight.

3. When he moved back to St. Paul, Minnesota, an African basketball player shoved Greg up against a wall and said "You ain't no African," as he and his friends beat Greg up.

2nd question=
Greg tries to raise money for the school by sending out letters to people. He only managed to get $723.45 through mail but, a mountain climer named Tom Vaughan published  an article about what Greg was doing helped get the rest.

3rd question=
Kishwar Syed helped Greg type 580 letters by teaching him how to use a computer. Jean Hoerni helped Greg by sending him a check in the mail for twelve thousand dollars.

1.he loved to climb things,his sister became ill from a vaccination,and his dad was famous.
2.rote articles,asked a scientist,sold everything he had owned.
3.help him and send money.

1. He grew up in Tanganyika, Africa, where his father managed to build a hospital. When he was eleven years old, he climbed Kilimanjaro, Africa's tallest mountain, and that's how he became hooked on climbing. When he got older his parents couldn't afford college, so he enrolled in the U.S. military for two years.

2.Greg  tries to raise money for the school by writing 580 letters to people all over the U.S. , and he only managed to raise a little bit of money at first.

3.Syed helps by teaching him how to use a computer. Jean Hoerni gives Greg twelve thousand dollars toward the school for the kids in Korphe.

1. His sister had a lot of seizure, his dad had worked in a hospital, and Greg was his sisters shield.
2.He entered the military and he succeed.
3.Syed helped by sending letters and Jean helped by giving him money

1-his sister christa, died of a seizure, his father got cancer, and when he was 34, he fell 800 ft. and only put his shoulder  out of joint, and broke his arm.
2- at first he typed 580 letters and at first only made 100 dollars. then, his mother, who was then the principal of Elementary School in River Falls asked him to come and talk to the kids about what he was doing, they started something called pennies for peace, and raised $623.45. but that wasn't enough to build a school. Jean Hoerni was the one who did it, he donated 12,000 dollars and gave greg the money he needed to build a school.
3-Jean was the one who donated 12,000 dollars, and kishwar helped greg print all the 580 letters, by giving him a computer.

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1) He grew up in Tanzania, Africa. At the age of eleven Greg climbed Mount Kilimanjaro. When he moved to the united states he was bullied because he said he was from Tanzania.

2) He asks the kids of his mothers school to donate pennies to help build schools. Then he had an article made in a climbing magazine to tell of his adventure and his need of money. One man called and gave him the exact amount of money that he needed. He was successful, but he had to get back to Korphe.

3) Kishwar Syed taught Greg to use the computer because he was from Pakistan. Jean Hoerni gave Greg enough money to build the school.

1.He went to the miltiary, he was like his dad, and he played football.



2. He went to the miltiary for collage and to raise money.




3. He gave him lessons how to use the computer.

1. Greg's sister, Christa, dies and he attempts to climb K2 in her honor; He climbed Africa's tallest mountain, Mt. Kilimanjaro, when he was 11 and when he got to the top, loved it and wanted to climb another one;

1. Greg loved to climb, he was a nurse and his sister was vaccinated.
2. Greg tried to raise money by writing 580 letters and at the end he got 12 thousand dollars.
3. Jean sent Greg the 12 thousand dollars and Kishwar taught Greg how to use a computer.

1.He like to climb a tree.He just like his father.His parent took him along on the great adventure to Tanganyike.

2.He wrote letters to famuse people.Then he got 12 thousand dollars.

3.Syed helps Greg to write letters,Jean gave to Greg 12 thousand dollars.

(1) He climbed Kilimanjaro, he worked hard to heal his sister, and he was her body guard.

(2) He tries to persuade everyone to donate money for this school but not everyone listened. But, yes he was successful.

(3) They both helped him send the 580 letters.

1) 1.Greg's childhood in Africa was different he learned to speak Swahili 2. he's  sister was having trouble with easy things her brother and sister3.Greg's father built a school for Tanzania.
 2) he asked  the students in his mothers to donate pennies. and he wrote letters to any possible he knows
 3)Greg had went to rent a typewriter but the owner said " Why don't you use a computer "and he had help him use the computer .j.h. (jean) had help by sending him a check of a thousand dollars

1.Greg knew how to climb a mountain and he new how to take care of people that are hurt.
2.Then he told them about sport heroes like Michael Jordan and all the other sport heroes.
3.The people in korphe gave  money to Greg so he could build a school.

1) His Parents helped build schools from the ground up.  He also traveled alot because of it. His sister was in a car accident causing problems with her brain.  This injury caused her to have seizures.  She died in her sleep when she was 23 right before going on a trip.
2) He raises money by asking for pennies. He also asks for help from a very wealthy man.  This man did give him the money but told him not to screw up.
3) Greg was given large amounts of money from Jean. This helped him to get materials to build the school.  Kishwar helped Greg get all his supplies at a good price.

1-greg childhoods most important detail is that he had helping people in his jeans.

2-he asked for money in the newspaper and sent mail to famoas people

3-they gave him large amounts of money to build the school in korphe.

1. One important detail was that he lived in Moshi, a town near Mount Kilimanjaro, where his father managed to open a hospital to help people and train doctors. Another important thing that happened in the story was that when Greg was eleven years old he climbed Mount Kilimanjaro, the tallest mountain in Africa. The third important detail was that when Greg's little sister Christa was eight he started getting seizures as a result of a vaccination she got and was diagnosed with epilepsy.

2. In order to get money he sent letters to famous people asking them to donate any amount of money to help him build the school. Also his mother was a principle at a school and she asked him to give a speech about what he was trying to do. The children started a program called Pennies For Pakistan. They raised 62,345 pennies! Overall he was very successful.

3. Kishwar Syed taught Greg how to use a computer to send all the letters he needed to raise money. Jean Hoerni gave Greg a check with $12,000 in it.