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What Can One Person Do?: Faith to Heal a Broken World
By Sabina Alkire and Edmund Newell
What Can One Person Do? confronts a poverty-stricken world, and with clarity of purpose, offers practical steps to create lasting change. Global poverty can be reduced through a series of achievable objectives: the eight Millennium Developemnt goals agreed to by the international community at the Millennium Summit in 2000. World leaders and faith communities have adopted the MDGs, as well as the ideas found within this book -- for the authors demonstrate that as shared vision grows and as these goals are accomplished, human communities shall indeed flourish.
The Price of a Dream: the Story of the Grameen Bank
By David Bornstein
This book is the compelling story of the Grameen Bank. Founded by Muhammad Yunus in Bangladesh in 1976, the Grameen Bank has extended small loans for self-employment to more than two million women villagers and has helped lift hundreds of thousands out of poverty. The Grameen Bank's "trickle up" approach has inspired the creation of hundreds of microcredit programs around the world and helped to reshape international development policy.
Left to Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust
By Immaculee Ilibagiza
In 1994, Immaculee Ilibagiza's idyllic world was ripped apart as Rwanda descended into a bloody genocide. Immaculee's family was brutally murdered during a killing spree that lasted three months and claimed the lives of nearly a million Rwandans.
Incredibly, Immaculee survived the slaughter. For 91 days, she and seven other women huddled silently together in the cramped bathroom of a local pastor while hundreds of machete-wielding killers hunted for them.
It was during those endless hours of unspeakable terror that Immaculee discovered the power of prayer, eventually shedding her fear of death and forging a profound and lasting relationship with God. She emerged from her bathroom hideout having discovered the meaning of truly unconditional love -- a love so strong she was able seek out and forgive her family's killers. The triumphant story of this remarkable young woman's journey through the darkness of genocide will inspire anyone whose life has been touched by fear, suffering and loss.
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