Want to Help the Poor But Not Sure Where to Start? Check Out These Books

My curious nature and appetite for reading led me to a career in journalism, and then public relations and international development. Along the way, I realized that if I wanted to do my job well—or just do life well, really—I needed to keep reading and learning. While we all may have an idea of what we think helping the poor should look like, often those ideas are in fact harmful to the very people we’re trying to help. (Just take a minute to Google “whites in shining armor” and you’ll see