by Conor Grennan
At its heart, this true tale is a love story.
Conor Grennan lived like a typical twenty-something: He partied. He had a job. He decided to spend his savings on a trip around the world, starting with volunteering three months in a Nepalese orphanage called Little Princes. (OK, so that might not be so typical.) Despite his lack of experience with children, he fell in love with these orphans. Soon their lives became entwined. He returned to Nepal later and met some children who had been purchased by a child trafficker. He made arrangements to move them to another orphanage, but they were taken by the trafficker before they could be saved. During this time, the civil war between the government and Maoist rebels intensified, so Conor had to flee.
Broke, unemployed, and now consumed with his failure to rescue the children, Conor did what any young person would do: he hung out in a law library to find out how to start his own non-profit to get the kids back. (OK, last joke.) Amazingly, he started Next Generation Nepal and raised the money to go back to Nepal to find these children and the parents of the children at Little Princes, who were mostly not orphans. These impoverished parents sold their children to child traffickers in hopes the kids could attend school and be safe during the civil war. That's not what happened. Attempts to reunite the families have succeeded in some cases, but not in others.
But the love story doesn't stop there. An online romance buds with a (beautiful) woman who saw a story about Conor in a local paper. And God, who has been reaching for Conor all this time, finally wins the heart of this man deep in a Hindu and Buddhist culture. This beautiful adventure shows what a man's passion can accomplish. (PG, highly recommend)
I bought this book a few weeks ago but haven't had a chance to read it yet. I can't wait!
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