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If we were walking near a pond or pool and saw a drowning child, most of us would jump in and save that child. But what about the many lives that are lost every day in many parts of the world as a direct result of poverty?

If you feel that with so many problems in the world, you might as well give up on solving them, or if you think of world poverty as impossible and therefore fruitless to try to eradicate, you are among the majority. But if more people opened their minds to some of the ideas found in this delightful slim volume, they would see how they might be able to make a difference. Philosopher Peter Singer’s The Life You Can Save leads us on a logical path toward understanding why it is important that we give–both of ourselves and in the form of donations to organizations that make a positive difference in the lives of others, indeed, organizations that save lives.

For those who are contemplating how to help improve the lives of poverty-stricken people in the world, I highly recommend this book.