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After writing 580 letters, Mortenson finally gets a response form a man, he received a check of twelve thousand dollars, he knew that with this money he was going to change Korphe children's lives, by building a public school that would allow them to have the chance to prepare for a better future.
All this stuff that Mortenson is doing for this children, tells us about his personality, he cares about others, and wants people to have the opportunity to succeed in life. Its surprising how he takes the responsibility for this town, by promising them that he was going to change it.

While Mortenson explored the village that he was staying in (Korphe), he saw many things that made him feel like they needed someone to speak for them, to make some changes to the community and the way of style people were living. The first thing he does is write letters to important people there and down in California, explaining how there wasn't an education program for children to learn, he described how much effort they putted into it whenever they had someone teaching them something. He wrote letter by letter since in Korphe is way far from technology. At first he didn't had any response from anyone, the first money he gets was from a group of students from a school in California, they did a fund raiser to support children in Pakistan, all the coins were pennies, and Mortenson says that here in the United States a penny might seem like no so important to anyone, " but in other countries it can move mountains."

So far Mortenson seems to be the kind of person that cares about others, an example of this would be how he helped the other hikers at the K12 mountain. He is also very emotional and understands that life in Kophe is much different form the country he came from; California, here in Kophe people live their lives day by day, not knowing whats going to happen tomorrow, children don't have schools to go to. He explains how a teacher gets paid a dollar per day to teach at least a couple of days to many children in this town, they also don't have any supplies that they can use to write notes or do homework on, they use the ground and a stick to write their notes, people with a "higher" economy would use a card board and a stick with mud as ink to write in it. This issue moved Mortenson, his first thoughts are that he wants to create a school for all this kids that follow him everywhere he goes, and provide materials that can make it easier for them to write their notes.