Blog Post #12

Towards the end of the final product of the building Hoerni becomes sick and Mortenson has to go back to Pakistan to document the school for Hoerni to see. They finished then building they finished the school on December 10th 1996. Before Hoerni passes away Mortenson lives with him in Seattle. Moerni left an endowment of $1million to the organization to build a school a year. It seems perfect that before he passed away he could see something so amazing that he helped to make, and it is great the Mortenson's idea of a school in Korphe would go beyond that to inspire more schools like this.
Religious groups in Pakistan began to fight against this school because it was offering girls to be taught in a school. In Mortenson's response he traveled back to Korphe to compromise with the people, he finds a man named Parvi to go against the fatwa set up against Mortenson's school. I was curious to what a fatwa was so I found this site that explains what went on with Mortenson and the school: http://islam.about.com/od/law/g/fatwa.htm.
After this period of time Mortenson has been able to oversee the building of three more schools under the organization. Mortenson has gotten the organization up and running and has a board of people to control the group. This is the official site of the organization today:http://www.ikat.org/. 
While back in America Mortenson recieves a red velvet box from from a shiite religious groups and as told that they have gotten rid of the fatwa placed against the school. Mohammud Aslam Khan comes to Mortenson to request a school for his village, Hushe, because of what he heard of the program and the Korphe school.
Once that school is built the people of these villages begin to realize hiow important and benificial it is to educate the girls. The CAI begins to go beyond schools and provide fresh water sources for villages. Next they build a school in Skardu for girl's educations after what happened to a girl named Fatima during fights between Pakistan and India.
It is amazing that for so long he couldn't get the school in Korphe together, but within a year of its completion he was been able to get multiple schools and other facilities to help villages up and running. Things are going well for him and what he desired to do to help the villages.
Looking back on the beginning it is amazing to think that at first Hoerni was hesitant in selling his money out for the cause of the school, but what came from it was so many things that are helping central Asia, especially in places where they desperately needed it. The theme of this book seems to simply be that when tough times are upon us that eventually get better, and since the time he tried to originally raise money there didn't seem to be many misfortunes in Mortenson's work of helping these people.