A Path Appears: Transforming Lives, Creating Opportunity Audiobook (Free)

An essential, galvanizing narrative about building a notable difference here and abroad-a road map to getting the very best global citizens we are able to be.

In their number 1 New York Times best seller Half the Sky, husband-and-wife team Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn taken to light challenges faced by women and girls around the world, and showcased individuals and institu­tions working to address oppression and increase opportunity. A Path Appears is even more ambi­tious in scale: nothing much less about A Route Appears: Transforming Lives, Creating Opportunity when compared to a sweeping touch­estry of individuals who are making the world an improved place and a guide to the techniques we can do the same-whether having a donation of $5 or $5 mil­lion, with this time, by taking advantage of our skills as individuals, or utilizing the sources of our businesses.

With scrupulous research and on-the-ground reporting, the writers assay the art and research of giving, recognize successful local and global initia­tives, and talk about astonishing stories from leading lines of interpersonal progress. We see the powerful, in­spiring truth of how real people have changed the world, upending the theory that one person can’t make a difference.

We meet people like Dr. Gary Slutkin, who devel­oped his landmark Remedy Violence plan to fight inner-city conflicts in the United States by applying concepts of epidemiology; Lester Solid, who left a career being a high-powered tv anchor to run an organization bringing in old Americans to tu­tor college students in public academic institutions across the country; MIT development economist Esther Duflo, whose pioneering research of aid efficiency have revealed brand-new truths about, among other activities, the power of wish; and Jessica Posner and Kennedy Odede, who are transforming Kenya’s most notorious slum by ex­panding educational possibilities for girls.

A Path Appears offers practical, results-driven advice on how best each of us can provide and reveals the lasting benefits we gain in return. Kristof and WuDunn understand much better than most how many immediate challenges communities all over the world encounter to­day. Here they provide a timely beacon of hope for our collective future.