Our Day to End Poverty: 24 Ways You Can Make a Difference (AGENCY/DISTRIBUTED) - Softcover

Daley-Harris, Shannon; Keenan, Jeffrey

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1576754464 ISBN 13: 9781576754467

Publisher: McGraw Hill / Europe, Middle East & Africa, 2007

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author

Shannon Daley-Harris came on board to write the book, drawing on her decades of U.S. and international work with and on behalf of children.
Jeff Keenan, after witnessing the juxtaposition of prosperity and poverty while working in Asia, sought to discern the contribution he could make to help end poverty. He engaged in conversation with Joy Anderson, president and founder of Criterion Ventures, about the roles individuals play in social change. They realized that there was a need for the global poverty equivalent of the environmental book 50 Simple Things You Can Do to Save the Earth by the EarthWorks Group. Joy set about assembling a team.
Karen Speerstra, a longtime publisher, joined the team to edit the book.

From the Back Cover

Imagine ending poverty at home and around the globe in our own lifetimes.
Imagine your actions combining with others' actions to make poverty
history. With originality and imagination this book invites us to look at
our very ordinary days, from waking up in the morning to going to bed in
the evening, and to begin to think about poverty in new and creative ways.
Our Day to End Poverty seeks to encourage readers that there is something
that each one of us can do, using our ordinary skills and resources, to
help end poverty. The book's challenges each of us with an immense
diversity of actions that we can take to really help eradicate poverty. It
connects with your day, from breakfast to bedtime. Each of the short
twenty-four chapters falls within one of three sections: Morning,
Afternoon, and Evening. Each section has eight chapters relating to common
daily routines. Think of them as pages from your daily organizer. Whether
it's planning for lunch or reading before bed, you may discover connections
between your day and the daily lives of people all around the world. This
book can help us all, for each of us is poor in many ways as well as rich
in many others. Our Day to End Poverty shows that whatever your bank
account or education, your age or political perspective, your experience or
skills, you can still make a difference--because making a difference isn't
a function of any one of those characteristics; it is a function of your
commitment and your hope, your willingness to take a risk and begin. One
day at a time. Anne Frank wrote during the Holocaust, "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.

Edition details

• Publisher: McGraw Hill / Europe, Middle East & Africa
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1576754464
• ISBN 13: 9781576754467
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 232