Sunday, October 26, 2014

I Believe in ZERO - Caryl M. Stern

I Believe in ZERO: Learning from the Worlds Children
Caryl M. Stern
272 pages
St. Martin’s Press


Waiting on the world to change
By Kirsten Pagnotta

Carly M. Stern grew up in New York a go-getter. She was always pushing the limit and achieving things she put her mind to. In 2006 she joined the U.S. Fund for UNICEF and shortly after became one of the top dogs in the company. Stern wanted to help raise money and awareness for impoverished countries but what she got out of this job was so much more. Stern traveled to the countries and found the people she met inspirational and the places she visited unacceptable.
 

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This book is an awesome PR tool for UNICEF, due to it’s gutting stories that stab you right in the heart. Stern talks about children who are sick and don’t even have clean water, orphanages in Haiti that are overflowing because of the Earth Quake, along with comparing the life of these children to the life of her own.



Picking up this book will take you straight to the communities where Stern traveled as well as straight to your checkbook to help these children.


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