Fascinating story, about a young idealistic American girl following her dream of helping humanity by deciding to join the Peace Corps and come to Pakistan in the early 1960's and help set up a community centre for village women in Punjab. The touches on some of the challenges Leslie faced in a pretty archaic Pakistan of 1960. The story than jet-sets to 2009 when the author rather courageously comes back to Pakistan in an attempt to juxtapose between the then and the now. This time around she is working with a different type of home grown educational evangelists who seem to be carrying on a pretty remarkable organisation all on their own without any need of Western aid. The American women manages to touch hearts and minds in a most novel way when she criss crosses across Pakistan from Karachi into Lahore, Northern Mountains and than finally into Islamabad and Rawalpindi. As a Pakistani I am just happy she was able to make it back in one piece as unfortunately the security situation is really bad at the moment. I don't think many Westerners can repeat her feat in the present very prevailing dangerous situation.
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