Our Day to End Poverty: 24 Ways You Can Make a Difference
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| Rating | : | 4.64 (601 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1576754464 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 232 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-08-18 |
| Language | : | English |
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Author of Divine Sparks: Collected Wisdom of the Heart, and Earthshapers, and co-author with her son, Joel, of Hunab Ku: 77 Sacred Symbols to Balance Body and Spirit, after a career in book publishing, she now spends her time, coaching, reading, writing, editing, and gardening. . Karen Speerstra, President, Sophia Serve, a coaching service to writers and publishers, is based in central Vermont. Joy Anderson, President, and Jackie Vanderbrug, Managing Director, are with Criterion Consulting, a national firm that incubates and scales social ventures that make for a better world. Shannon has authored Welcome the Child: A Child Advocacy Guide for Churches with Kathleen Guy, A Child Advocate's Concordance to the Holy Bible, Congregations Stand for Healthy Children, Putting Our Faith into Action, Say That I'm a Child of God, and numerous
"We Can All Make a Difference" according to Ellen L. Frost. Have you ever felt the urge to "do something" when faced with searing images of poverty? Perhaps you have lingered for a moment over photographs of a starving child in Africa, a flood victim in Asia, a poor family coping with a natural disaster or illness in your own neighborhood, or a hundred other reminders of poverty on our planet. Like most of us,you may feel helpless. This book is aimed directly at people who want . "I Am Now a Daily Poverty Fighter" according to Susan E. Baechler. Thank you to the authors for bringing local/global poverty issues and solutions to the front door step with urgency, actions and respect for what is already in our hearts. You have created an awareness and checklist that transform concern into action. May I say that I'm stunned to find the UN Millennium Development goals new to me after seven years of activity. Such a global common good should be front page news and top. JChamberlain said Moving Beyond Concern. Like many people, I have had a longstanding concern about poverty and the related problems people face on a daily basis (preventable deaths, unnecessary suffering, and inadequate education just to name a few). Our Day to End Poverty provides a wonderful opportunity to move beyond concern into action.Written in a style that brings forward the immediacy of poverty-related issues, Our Day to End Poverty is a diverse and in
Karen Speerstra, President, Sophia Serve, a coaching service to writers and publishers, is based in central Vermont. He has spent those same twenty years nurturing and developing his family and volunteering for a variety of community service organizations. Shannon has authored Welcome the Child: A Child Advocacy Guide for Churches with Kathleen Guy, A Child Advocate's Concordance to the Holy Bible, Congregations Stand for Healthy Children, Putting Our Faith in
Imagine your actions combining with others; actions to make poverty history. The chapters are short and pithy, full of specific facts and a menu of alternative action steps. Some times a problem gets to be so big, we feel there is nothing we can do about it. Each chapter/hour of the day proposes a variety of fun and practical actions one can take to help overcome domestic and global poverty. ""Our Day to End Poverty"" is organized into 24 ""hour/chapter"" segments. Each chapter connects with your day, from breakfast to bedtime, relatinng these steps to ending poverty to our daily routines. Imagine ending poverty at home and around the globe in our own lifetimes. ""Our Day to End Poverty"" reminds us that if we all do just a little, a lot can get done.. 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