Saying is one thing, acting is another.

by Eva Vaitanaki

I Believe in Zero.
Carly M. Stern
254 pages
St. Martin’s Press
Hardcover: $19.19 (Amazon)

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                One episode that was really striking to me is when Carly M. Stern goes to Darfur. This chapter let the reader know why she is so concerned by humanitarian action, how much she cares about it, how people survive after horrible things happened to them.

Carly M. Stern is the current President and CEO of the U.S. Fund for UNICEF. For most of her life, Carly M. Stern has served as the Chief Operating Officer and Senior Associate National Director of the Anti-Defamation League; the founding Director of ADL’s A WORLD OF DIFFERENCE Institute; and the Dean of Students at Polytechnic University. Really involved in humanitarian projects, Ms. Stern also wrote books to share her experience with the world, revealing some aspects of some countries that some people are not always aware of.

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Her last book I Believe in ZERO deals with her new position as a CEO of the U.S. Fund for UNICEF, the bad conditions in which people live and are exposed to everyday in some disadvantaged countries. The book is written in such a way that you can easily identify to the author, as if we were here when the scenes she describes, happened. Very easy to read and to understand, Ms. Stern broaches many aspects of people’s lives, from the good to the bad sometimes comparing our lives to theirs.

Through her writing, Carly M. Stern makes us, as readers and individuals, aware of the situation in those countries as well as realize how lucky we are. I would strongly recommend that book.

If you want to help those people in need, please feel free to go on their website and donate. Or if you want to get involved in UNICEF Missions, you can follow them on Twitter, Facebook.