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The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time by Jeffrey D. Sachs, Foreward by Bono. Penguin Publishers, 2005
Celebrated economist Jeffrey Sachs has a plan to eliminate extreme poverty around the world by 2025. If you think that is too ambitious or wildly unrealistic, you need to read this book. His focus is on the one billion poorest individuals around the world who are caught in a poverty trap of disease, physical isolation, environmental stress, political instability, and lack of access to capital, technology, medicine, and Education. The goal is to help these people reach the first rung on the "ladder of economic development" so they can rise above mere subsistence level and achieve some control over their economic futures and their lives. This important book not only makes the end of poverty seem realistic, but in the best interest of everyone on the planet, rich and poor alike.
What Can One Person Do?: Faith to Heal a Broken World by Sabina Alkire and Edmund Newell. Church Publishing, Inc., 2005
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.
Eradicating Global Poverty: A Christian Study Guide on the Millennium Development Goals by Lallie B. Lloyd. Friendship Press (National Council of Churches), 2006.
This is a compelling and possibly life-changing guide for church schools and other study groups. Learn more... (external link) Order toll-free, 800-889-5733, or fax, 513-761-3722 Order by e-mail at Rbray@gbgm-umc.org.

DVD Videos

Global Reconciliation: Overcoming Poverty, HIV/AIDS, and Religious Conflict
Excerpts from a forum held at Episcopal Divinity School, April 6, 2002, feature the keynote address by Dr. Jeffrey D. Sachs, the Director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University and Special Advisor to UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan on the Millennium Development Goals, and an address by Archbishop Desmond M. Tutu.

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A Diary of Angelina Jolie and Jeffrey Sachs
In this special think MTV episode of Diary, actress and United Nations Goodwill Ambassador Angelina Jolie journeys to Kenya with the world's leading expert on poverty, Dr. Jeffrey Sachs, the Director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University and Special Advisor to UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan on the Millennium Development Goals. On their journey, they witness how the challenges of hunger, disease and isolation in Africa are being overcome in this small village beset by hunger, AIDS, and malaria.

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"Primetime Live" Diane Sawyer Interview with Brad Pitt
In a special hour-long "Primetime Live" report, Diane Sawyer talks with Brad Pitt and also travels to Africa and reports on Pitt's recent tour -- where he witnessed first-hand the devastating impact of AIDS and poverty on the continent. Pitt tells Sawyer that he is frustrated by the fact that his personal life has been the subject of a media frenzy while this humanitarian crisis has received relatively little media coverage. "I can't get out of the press. These people can't get in the press. So let's redirect the attention a little bit," says Pitt. "It drives me mental seeing what I've seen and knowing that it doesn't show up in our news every day."

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You will probably want to preview the episode to include only the interview about Africa and the footage from Africa itself (these two are most of the episode and it is easy to skip the segment of the interview on Pitt's personal life).

Networks for Global Reconciliation

Realizing that the alleviation of material suffering and spiritual renewal go hand-in-hand, Episcopalians for Global Reconciliation (EGR) seeks to mobilize the Episcopal Church to be a force for global reconciliation.

Fr. Jay was an original member of EGR and currently serves on their Communications Committee and is the EGR Coordinator in the Diocese of Pennsylvania. Learn more about EGR here.

Faithful Action is a response of Christians -- individuals and communities -- to the extreme poverty that entraps over 1 billion people around the world. Our ministry is to help Christians participate in God's Mission of restoring creation to wholeness by advancing the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) through support of the Millennium Villages™ Project.

Please visit the St. Paul's Public Policy Advocacy page to learn about the ONE Episcopalian / ONE campaign that is joining over 2 million Americans -- and linking them to millions more around the world -- to Make Poverty History.