Our Day to End Poverty: 24 Ways You Can Make a Difference
- ISBN-10
- 1609944178
- ISBN-13
- 9781609944179
- Series
- Our Day to End Poverty
- Category
- Social Science
- Pages
- 192
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2007-06-18
- Publisher
- Berrett-Koehler Publishers
- Authors
- Karen Speerstra, Shannon Daley-Harris, Jeffrey Keenan
Description
Our Day to End Poverty invites us to look at the twenty-four hours in our very ordinary days and to begin to think about poverty in new and creative ways. The authors offer scores of simple actions anyone can take to help eradicate poverty. Each chapter takes a task we undertake during a typical day and relates it to what we can do to ease the world's suffering. We begin by eating breakfast, so the first chapter focuses on alleviating world hunger. We take the kids to school--what can we do to help make education affordable to all? In the afternoon we check our email--how can we ensure the access to technology that is such an important route out of poverty? The chapters are short and pithy, full of specific facts, resources for learning more, and menus of simple, often fun, and always practical action steps. Anne Frank wrote, "How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world." Let's get started. It is our day to end poverty.
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