KHANDAY VILLAGE PAKISTAN – Nobel Prize nominee and New York Times best selling author Greg Mortenson along side the schoolchildren of Khanday Village. As of 2008, Mortenson has established over 78 schools in rural and often volatile regions of Pakistan and Afghanistan, which provide education to over 30,000 children, including 22,000 girls, where few education opportunities existed before. - KHANDAY VILLAGE PAKISTAN – Nobel Prize nominee and New York Times best selling author Greg Mortenson along side the schoolchildren of Khanday Village. As of 2008, Mortenson has established over 78 schools in rural and often volatile regions of Pakistan and Afghanistan, which provide education to over 30,000 children, including 22,000 girls, where few education opportunities existed before.