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Students donate to CAI
 Pictured l-r: Cody Anderson, Jennifer Swaggart, CR General Studies professor Vinnie Peloso (back), ASCR president Ashley Chapman, Polly Johns, Amber Smith, CR English professor Dave Holper, Karen Rio (student representative on the CR Board of Trustees), and Ryley Emanaker. (Photo by Paul DeMark)
The Associated Students of College of the Redwoods recently voted to donate $2,500 to the Central Asia Institute (CAI). The Institute was founded by Greg Mortenson, the co-author of the best-selling book “Three Cups of Tea,” which is CR and Humboldt State’s joint Book of the Year. The book chronicles Mortenson’s failed attempt to scale the world’s second-highest mountain, K2. Exhausted afterward, he wandered into a desperately poor Pakistani village where he was nursed back to health. He learned that the community could not pay a dollar a day to hire a teacher. Mortenson launched a humanitarian campaign and collected funds in small amounts from a grassroots effort. He went on to establish 78 schools. Mortenson was recently nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize.
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