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.
I
Believe in ZERO shares many of Stern’s stories about the journeys she took
and the individuals she met that touched her throughout her visits. The first
story, which grabs your attention off the bat, is Stern’s first trip to
Mozambique. This is when Stern finds out what poverty really is. She tells the
stories with so much detail that I can imagine myself there walking the streets
with her. This story is what projects the whole book and starts off with in
your face details and imagery that gets the reader wanting to learn more about
her findings.
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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