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The Surest Way to End Poverty
作者: Shakira
As Kofi Annan put it, poverty is intolerable in a world of plenty, so as soon as I had some success, the first thing I wanted to do was to invest as many resources I could into what later would become the most meaningful project of my life, working for children.
正如Kofi Annan所言，这个物质充裕的世界无法忍受贫穷，所以我取得了一定的成功后，立刻想做的第一件事就是为儿童事业投入尽可能多的资源，而这在将来定会成为我一生中最有意义的事。
So I set out to find a team, a team of people who dream big and worked hard and thought like me to help me right the wrongs that I had witnessed throughout my entire childhood, and that's when our foundation The Barefoot Foundation was born.
所以我开始组建团队，寻找拥有远大梦想、努力工作，以及和我有相同想法的人，帮助我改变在整个童年时期目睹的不公现象，正是那时我们的赤足基金会诞生了。
I knew, and I was only 18 years old then, but I knew that I wanted to focus on children and improving their lives, but I didn't know where to start.
虽然那时我才18岁，但我清楚地知道，我想致力于儿童事业，改善他们的生活，可是我不知道该怎么开始。
So, I really felt that I needed to learn what the roots of inequality and low social mobility were.
所以，我真的觉得我需要了解造成不平等和社会流动性低的根源是什么。
So, I decided to study the reasons why children were working in the streets or why some children were being recruited by the violent organizations, like the paramilitary or the guerrillas, why were so many children suffering from chronic malnutrition
所以，我决定调查为什么儿童在街上工作，为什么一些儿童被暴力组织雇佣，如非法军事组织或游击队，还有为什么那么多儿童长期营养不良。
and I realized that most of the issues that children face in my country had and have a common denominator — the lack of access to quality education.
我意识到，我国儿童面临的大多数问题一直都有一个共同点——缺乏接受优质教育的机会。
To me, it became crystal clear that education was the surest way to give all these kids the best fighting chance of improving their circumstances in life because education is the great equalizer.
对我来说，显而易见，教育是给所有这些儿童最可靠的奋斗机会，让他们能够改善自己的生活环境，因为教育是巨大的平衡力量。
When I started building schools in Colombia, We chose the most remote areas, areas where there was literally nothing, no infrastructure, no paved roads, no electricity, no potable water.
当我开始在哥伦比亚修建学校时，我们选择了最偏远的地区，那里几乎什么都没有，没有基础设施，没有铺路，没有电，没有饮用水。
And we decided to build in those places but not only build schools but state-of-the-art schools, schools with comprehensive models that included ECD programs, school feeding programs, parent and teacher training.
我们决定在这些地方不仅是建学校，而是建高水平的学校，包括儿童早期开发计划、学校供餐计划、家长和教师培训项目的综合学校。
And another very important part is we've decided to engage the government as a strategic partner and made it nearly impossible for them to say no to doing their part by showing them results through our holistic model that really proved to work.
还有另一个非常重要的部分，我们决定推动政府作为战略伙伴参与进来，通过我们的综合性教育模式向他们展示结果，让他们几乎不可能拒绝履行自己的职责，而综合性教育模式确实有用。
——来自百词斩爱阅读
在职场中，不断学习，不断创新，不断提升自我，是想要立足的最便捷最直接最简单的方式。
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