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Connecting Our Worlds One $25 Kiva Loan at a Time
by Bob Harris
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by Kennedy Odede, Jessica Posner
Published Jul 2016
Read ReviewsFind Me Unafraid tells the uncommon love story between two uncommon people whose collaboration sparked a successful movement to transform the lives of vulnerable girls and the urban poor. With a Foreword by Nicholas Kristof.
by Alison Thompson
Published Jul 2011
Read ReviewsThe Third Wave tells the inspiring story of how volunteering changed Thompsons life, and provides an invaluable inside glimpse into what really happens on the ground after a disasterand a road map for what anyone can do to help.
by Kate Pickett, Richard Wilkinson
Published Apr 2011
Read ReviewsIt is common knowledge that in rich societies the poor have shorter lives and suffer more from almost every social problem. This groundbreaking book goes an important stage beyond either of these ideas: it demonstrates that more unequal societies are bad for almost everyone within them - the well-off as well as the poor.
by Peter Singer
Published Sep 2010
Read ReviewsFor the first time in history, it is now within our reach to eradicate world poverty and the suffering it brings. The people of the developed world face a profound choice: If we are not to turn our backs on a fifth of the worlds population, we must become part of the solution.
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind
by William Kamkwamba
Published Aug 2010
Read ReviewsThe Boy Who Harnessed the Wind is the immensely engaging and inspiring true account of an enterprising African teenager who constructed a windmill from scraps to create electricity for his entire community.
by Dr. Ross Donaldson MD, MPH
Published Jul 2010
Read ReviewsRoss Donaldson is one of just a few who have ventured into dark territory of a country ravaged by war to study one of the world's most deadly diseases.More than just an adventure story, it is a portrait of the Sierra Leone people and the struggle of those risking all to aid them.
by Tracy Kidder
Published Aug 2004
Read ReviewsThis powerful and inspiring book shows how one person can make a difference, as Kidder tells the true story of a gifted man who is in love with the world and has set out to do all he can to cure it.
by Muhammad Yunus
Published Oct 2003
Read ReviewsThis autobiography of the world-renowned, visionary economist who came up with a simple but revolutionary solution to end world poverty - micro-credit.
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