Showing The Blue Sweater by Jacqueline Novogratz

Paperback. Pub Date: 2010 Pages: 306 Publisher: Rodale Books The Blue Sweater is the inspiring story of a woman who left a career in International Banking. To Spend her life on a quest to understand global poverty and find powerful new ways of tackling it. It all started back home in Virginia. with the blue sweater. a gift that quickly became her prized possession-until the day she outgrew it and gave it away to Goodwill. Eleven years later in Africa. she spotted a young boy wearing that very sweater. with her name still on the tag inside. That the sweater had made its trek all the way to Rwanda was ample evidence. she thought. of how we are all connected. how our actions-and inaction-touch people every day across the globe. people we may never know or meet.From her first stumbling efforts as a young idealist venturing forth in Africa to the creation of the trailblazing orga...