Our Day to End Poverty
24 Ways You Can Make a Difference
Published on 10. June 2007
Book
Paperback/Softback
248 pages
978-1-57675-446-7 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
San Francisco
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 142 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
313 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-57675-446-7 (9781576754467)
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E-Book
06/2007
1st Edition
Berrett-Koehler Publishers
€15.09
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Shannon Daley-Harris | Jeffrey Keenan | Karen Speerstra
Our Day to End Poverty
24 Ways You Can Make a Difference
E-Book
06/2007
1st Edition
Berrett-Koehler Publishers
€39.99
Available for download
Persons
Shannon Daley-Harris and Jeffrey Keenan with Karen Speerstra
Content
The Beginning of Our Day. How this book came into being and the team that created it. Good Morning. Our vision and the book's organization. Morning. 1. Breakfast- get a good start to the day, Together we can "break the fast" and end acute hunger and starvation. 2. Commute to Work- plan the day; make some calls, Good transportation allows us to make a living and protect the environment. 3. Everyone Needs an Education- get the kids to school, Education helps prepare us all for productive futures. 4. Protect our Children- take kids to child care, All children-everywhere-need and deserve to be safe and well cared for. 5. Children's Health- visit the pediatrician, Healthy children strengthen families and our futures. 6. Sustainable Food Sources- work in the garden, We all need sustainable food sources. 7. Responsible Shopping- coffee break! By choosing and supporting socially responsible products and producers, we can help developing markets empower people. 8. More Thoughts on Giving, What and how we give helps end poverty. Afternoon. 9. Lunch- lunch meeting, Together we can end the "hidden hunger" of chronic malnutrition. 10. The Work Day- pick up paycheck, Jobs with fair wages can and should be a path out of poverty. 11. Technology: Important Tools- check e mail, Computers, phones, and other technology connects people providing a route out of poverty. 12. Protect and Honor Women- return Mom's phone call, When women flourish, families and communities flourish. 13. Adult Health- schedule check-up, Wellness is our goal. 14. Safe, Affordable Homes- clean the house, Everyone deserves to have a safe living space. 15. Reduce Debt- refinance the house, Overwhelming national debt blocks progress out of poverty. 16. More Thoughts on Volunteering, How we give our time and energy can make a big difference in ending poverty. Evening. 17. Dinner- invite friends for dinner, Sharing a meal with others creates an opportunity to nurture commitment to ending global poverty. 18. Access to Credit- stop by the bank, Microcredit enables people to profit from their work and leave poverty behind. 19. Literacy for All- return books to the library, Literacy is key for moving out of poverty. 20. Take a Vacation- order tickets, Travels offers opportunities to understand and respond to poverty, first hand. 21. Mother's Health- take gift to new mother, Saving lives of women in childbirth creates a future filled with promise. 22. Clean Water and Sanitation- get the faucet fixed, Access to drinkable water and sanitary conditions is essential. 23. Meet or Exceed the 0.7% Goal- pay bills, Working together we can meet or exceed goals set by world leaders. 24. More Thoughts on Advocating, Make all our voices heard. Good Night. End this day confident together we can meet tomorrow's on-going challenges to abolish poverty. (Additional resources including Our Day to End Poverty website)