Greg Mortenson’s organization CAI has helped Swat Relief Initiative raise almost $10,000 through the Reach Foundation over the past several months. Yesterday, Swat Relief Initiative’s president and board members attended, at Greg Mortenson’s invitation, a round-table conference on education with distinguished speakers such as Owen Bennett-Jones of BBC World and author of Pakistan: Eye of the Storm, Mir Ibrahim Rahman, CEO of GEO TV Network, Saeed A. Khan, founder of the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding, and of course Greg Mortenson himself.
Efforts to promote education in Pakistan (particularly for women) were discussed in this forum. SRI President Zebu Jilani and other board members met privately with Greg Mortenson to discuss education and healthcare in Swat.