So as not to seem completely self-indulgent to his friends and family, Conor started his year-long trip around the world with a three-month stint volunteering in the Little Princes Orphanage in war-torn Nepal. What began as a cover story changed Conor's life, and the lives of countless others, forever. The turning point occurred during Conor's second stint as a volunteer with Little Princes. While playing on the roof of the orphanage, Conor was approached by a woman who would turn out to be the mother of two of the wards. Over hours of conversations with her, Conor learned the truth. Many of the little princes were not orphans but children that had been taken from their homes by child traffickers. In addition to losing two of her boys, this woman, while under the control of a human trafficker, was doing her best to keep seven other terrified kids alive. Conor's life changed in those moments, as he decided to commit himself to these unfortunates. After securing spots in an orphanage for all seven and arranging for an excellent local staff to run the Little Princes Orphanage, Conor escaped Nepal, one day before revolution erupted in Kathmandu. After arriving home, Conor received a devastating email reporting that the seven kids had disappeared, snatched once again by the same trafficker. Soon he was back in Kathmandu, riding through the chaotic streets on the back of a local's motorcycle, searching for his kids, seven needles in a corrupt haystack. And that is where Conor's story begins. Conor pledged to not only start a new orphanage for these seven but also to start an entire new programme dedicated to reuniting kids with their lost families in remote villages in the Nepalese hills. He lived under constant fear of retribution from the traffickers. He needed to return to the US by 22 December, both because that was the agreed-upon panic date on which friends would alert authorities if he didn't return, and because it was the date that the woman he'd fallen in love with over email would arrive at his door so they could, at long last, meet in person. Conor's tale is an epic thriller, and a love story, and is best told by Conor himself.

Little Princes

Conor Grennan

HarperCollins, Publishers

Paperback. Pub Date :2011-08-04 Pages: 320 Language: English Publisher: Harpertrue The riveting story of Conor Grennans year in Nepal reads like a cross between Into Thin Air and Three Cups of Tea While volunteering at an orphanage. Conor discovers. that the children are not orphans:.. they are trafficked Despite the danger. Conor treks up dirt paths with photographs of the children. miraculously reuniting dozens of families.Its 2006 and Nepal is a country torn apart by war. greed and corruption Caught in the middle are the Nepalese children. snatched and sold into slavery. the kidnappers promising their families that they will be taken to a safe haven from where they will eventually return. Some of the luckier ones are finally dumped in an orphanage. only to be found by Conor. an unlikely philanthropist. Conors search for intrepid adventure on the cusp of 30 soon becomes a ...

Little Princes: One Man's Promise to Bring Home the Lost Children of Nepal

Parenting & Relationships

Family Relationships

HarperTrue

<p>"Funny, touching, tragic....A remarkable tale of corruption, child trafficking and civil war in a far away land-and one man's extraordinary quest to reunite lost Nepalese children with their parents."-Neil White, author of In the Sanctuary of OutcastsLittle Princes is the epic story of Conor Grennan's battle to save the lost children of Nepal and how he found himself in the process. Part Three Cups of Tea, part Into Thin Air, Grennan's remarkable memoir is at once gripping and inspirational, and it carries us deep into an exotic world that most readers know little about.</p>

Little Princes (Doubleday Large Print Home Library Edition)

Travel

Travel Writing

New York: William Morris / Harper Collins

Extraordinary journey of a man that decided to save children in Nepal.

William Morrow

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Little Princes

Little Princes: One Man's Promise to Bring Home the Lost Children of Nepal

Little Princes (Doubleday Large Print Home Library Edition)

Little Princes