A crowd estimated at 600 people came to the Portland campus of the University of Southern Maine on Monday night to hear Greg Mortenson’s message describing terrorists’ greatest fear.
Mortenson, a world-renowned author and humanitarian, has spent the last 17 years helping to create more than 140 schools and 60 temporary schools for refugees in rural and often volatile regions of Pakistan and Afghanistan.
His organization, the nonprofit Central Asia Institute, establishes schools that now provide educational opportunities for more than 64,000 children. About 52,000 of the students are girls.
