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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Daley-Harris, Shannon
Otros Autores: Keenan, Jeffrey, 1961-, Speerstra, Karen
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: San Francisco, CA : Berrett-Koehler Publishers, ©2007.
Colección:BK currents book.
Temas:
Poverty.
Social action.
Pauvreté.
Action sociale.
poverty.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Poverty & Homelessness.
Poverty
Social action
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface
  • Introduction: opening our eyes to how we can end poverty in our day
  • Break the fast
  • Educate every child
  • Make work pay
  • Care for our children
  • Give all children healthy futures
  • Help produce a better harvest
  • Consume with conscience
  • Give from the heart: more thoughts on giving
  • End hunger and malnutrition
  • Extend the reach of technology
  • Expand access to microcredit
  • Encourage social entrepreneurship
  • Ensure health care for all
  • Provide housing
  • Call for debt relief
  • Serve with satisfaction: more thoughts on volunteering
  • Extend hospitality and create community
  • Spread literacy
  • Improve transportation options
  • Travel with a purpose
  • Save the lives of mothers and newborns
  • Improve access to clean water
  • Increase international development aid
  • Speak up for justice: more thoughts on advocacy
  • Conclusion: dream of a bright tomorrow
  • How to use this book with others
  • Guide for schools
  • Guide for the workplace
  • Guide for places of worship
  • Index
  • About the book team.

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