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Thanks for the review. I think it could fit into our culture study. May I ask where you purchased your copy?
We recently 'visited' Mexico through books, videos and food. I showed the kids the video from tourism Mexico and reminded them that Mexico is in fact a poor country although the video makes it seem without conflict or challenge. After watching and reading several books Gabriel said, "Mexico is rich in other things". True! Money is only one way to measure worth. Hmmm...
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This book "Unpoverty" by Mark Lutz has drastically affected our family. We have no frame of reference about the developing world and missions other than my exposure to media, our few trips to Missionfest (which I recommend for school aged kids http://www.missionfest.org/home ) and our friend's stories. This book is targeted at adults and is non fiction BUT it is the best adult nonfiction book our kids have ever heard!!! OK you're right - it is the only adult non fiction book that I made them sit through, but they weren't forced to sit through it. They kept asking me to read more and more!! (I love it when that happens)
Basically it is a collection of real life accounts during the life of the author. It was described to me by Jannalee from CBC7 (the owner of the copy we read) as the 'story' of Opportunities International which is a mission organization focused on micro finance. The author has been with this organization for years. Each chapter has a theme (ie: gratitude, family, perseverance, faith, community etc) and features several true life international accounts/stories that the Christian author witnessed.
This helped us understand how the local economy works in developing countries, about what microfinance is and how it can be effectively implemented in communities, what recycling really is, what conditions people really do live in, how the author thinks we can actually remove all people out of poverty during his lifetime ...... did you know men jump onto garbage trucks waiting to get into the dump and pick out the glass jars so someone can wash them and sell them? And someone can buy them and make a lamp with them? And when that person gets a loan they can employ their neighbours to do the assembly and now another family's children have enough food to eat today too? Or did you know that people live in the ditch space beside the railroad tracks and that when the train driver gets close to town, he blows the whistle and everyone gets off the tracks while the train goes past (including the furniture they are building or the kids playing)? Did you know that if you take/send lots of clothes to a small area as a gift to them then you likely sentenced the seamstress's family to not being able to afford school because no one buys from her anymore because of over supply? Did you know that if a family doesn't work today then no ones eats today? Did you know that when they give out loans, they make the other local loan owners be the guarantees for the loans and everyone has to go to weekly meetings so that they can learn from each other and create positive peer pressure for those who are slacking on payments and support for others if someone gets ill?
I totally LOVED the learning and exposure this gave us (Harold read it too and loved it), but it really got the kids thinking. They asked soooo many questions about what we were reading, about business and how microfinance and loans in general work - plus other questions like what is a rickshaw etc. We are business owners and yet I believe it is the simplicity of these developing world businesses that make it all seem to make sense in the kid's heads. So, next thing I knew was that our kids are developing a business plan for a business they are hoping to start in the spring. Who knows what their plan will bring, but the fact that they are thinking is what I love!!!!!
Our kids are aged 7-12 including a 9 yr old boy and all of it was appropriate except one paragraph in the first chapter which talked about rape. Some of it could be gross to a child (living on top of a dump for example). This book is full of inspirational stories - like a woman who borrowed $ and then grew her business further and further and eventually installed a shower at work so all of her employees could have access to a shower. Or a man who had a dream and eventually got loads of computers donated and then got an ivy league US university class to spend the summer making a network of computers. Or a farmer who taught his local friends how to grow chickens so well that there was a shortage of chicken feed so his next loan was for a corn grinder and now he custom grinds local corn at a fair price so that the local corn growers benefit from the local flourishing chicken business. This is not a 'faith' book, but he does reference his Christian faith several times and he retells experiences he had with The Lord. It does have a life application section at the end too.
