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"Life is hard for ten-year-old Safiyah in the Kibera slum outside Nairobi. Too poor to go to school, she makes a meager living for herself and her grandmother by selling things she finds at the garbage dump. The pages of the glossy magazines she finds at the dump are full of pictures of beautiful people doing things Safiyah can only dream about. But the magazines also inspire Safiyah to create something that may give her and Cucu the chance of a better...
4) The idiot
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"The Idiot: Illustrated" is a classic novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky that delves into the complexities of human nature and societal norms. The story follows Prince Lev Nikolayevich Myshkin, a young nobleman known for his innocence, honesty, and compassion, who returns to Russia after spending several years in a Swiss sanatorium for treatment of his epilepsy.
As Prince Myshkin navigates the treacherous waters of St. Petersburg society, he encounters...
6) Poor Folk
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Financial difficulties resulting from an extravagant lifestyle and excessive gambling led Fyodor Dostoevsky to pen his first novel "Poor Folk". First published in 1846, "Poor Folk" is the story of impoverished cousins Varvara Dobroselova and Makar Devushkin. The two live in run-down apartments across the street from each other in St. Petersburg. Through a series of letters to each other we learn of the suffering, humiliation, and isolation that results...
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With her mama recently dead and her pa sight unseen since birth, Amelia is suddenly in charge of her younger brother and sister-- and the family gas station. To keep a competitor at bay and keep her family out of foster care, Melia must come up with a father-- fast. When a hobo rolls out of a passing truck, Melia grabs opportunity by its beard. Can she convince the town that Hiram is her long lost father, and keep the family together until she comes...
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"For many children around the world, getting an education is only a distant dream. War, poverty, discrimination, and violence are seemingly insurmountable obstacles to going to school. But there is hope. Fight to Learn presents the uplifting stories of the incredible people whose vision and drive have made the dream of education come true for many."--Back cover.
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What does it mean to be poor? For decades, the dominant narrative in the UK and US has been that it is caused by personal flaws or 'bad life decisions'. People are 'lazy', 'dependent' and 'irresponsible'. This 'story' has become embedded in the public consciousness with serious ramifications for how financially vulnerable people are seen, spoken about and treated. Drawing on a two-year story-telling project and her own experience of childhood poverty,...
10) Sounder
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Angry and humiliated when his sharecropper father is jailed for stealing food for his family, a young black boy grows in courage and understanding by learning to read and with the help of the devoted dog Sounder.
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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 and relates it to what we can do to ease the world's suffering. We begin by eating breakfast, so the first chapter focuses on alleviating world hunger....
12) Street Images II
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In this work Street Images, we are struck by the passion of the persons who speak through a variety of their lived experiences. One poet, who titles his or her poem, Anonymous, says: So do not ask Why we pass unknown... It is enough that we blaze.... These work are from many who have been "On the Street" and "Behind Closed Doors." There's real pain, real joy, real triumph and real defeat in these writings....
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What matters most in how poverty shapes children's wellbeing and development? How can data inform social policy and practice approaches to improving the outcomes for poorer children? Using life course analysis from the Young Lives study of 12,000 children growing up in Ethiopia, India, Peru and Vietnam over the past 15 years, this book draws on evidence on two cohorts of children, from 1 to 15 and from 8 to 22. It examines how poverty affects children's...
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What is life like for families who are stuck in problem debt? Why do they fall into a spiral of debt in the first place, and why is it so hard to escape? The first hand stories in this book offer a unique understanding of life for families and children fighting a daily battle against poverty and debt. They give voice to some of the most underrepresented people in society, who are too often portrayed cruelly in the media and elsewhere. Drawing on...
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American homelessness is a humanitarian disaster. And we just let it happen. This book is a how-to guide for the people of America to end homelessness TODAY. Bureaucrats, homeless service providers, churches, and politicians are incapable and unwilling to do the work they should be doing. WE THE PEOPLE MUST DO THE WORK.
This is the manual on becoming a homeless activist and ending homelessness in the richest, most Christian country in the world.
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Escribo este orientador e interesante libro, con el objeto de decir las verdades que son de mi conocimiento. Con esto no quiero decir que digo las causas que motivan la pobreza porque estas son variadas y diversas, pero si digo lo que sé. Aplico el lenguaje que hablo diariamente, porque es el que entiendo y el que entiende mi público, que precisamente son los pobres, y no es que por mi voluntad haya querido faltar al idioma de Cervantes o a la Real...
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El texto tiene el propósito de ayudar a los lectores a entender y a reflexionar sobre la situación social en América Latina, a partir del análisis de los trabajos realizados por investigadores y estudiosos de las diferentes áreas en las que se enmarca la gerencia social, estos aportes constituyen fuentes documentales muy valiosas para abordar la problemática de la pobreza en el contexto latinoamericano.
19) Ser Pobre
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Cada párrafo de Ser pobre es una perla obtenida en un lugar inaccesible.
Con un pie en las universidades de élite del Reino Unido y otro en el restaurante de techo de chapa de Cândida, en el altiplano angoleño. Solo así puede uno aproximarse a un fenómeno complejo y multidimensional como es la pobreza.
20) In Other Hands
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In search of stimulating stories, George Thomas Clark interviewed prostitutes in Madrid, Mexico City, Havana, and Managua and on many boulevards in the United States, and talked to detectives and rode the rough roads of social workers who deal with human trafficking, which is contemporary slavery, and toured the tattered, handmade shelters of the homeless and also interviewed them on the streets and in shelters, and conversed with the poor in the...
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