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.
