FIVE WAYS to Make a Difference In Your Community
You can make your neighborhood a better place to live. Here's How!
Jan. 11, 2005
Tue.
Help with a hobby
Your Special Skill Hobby Might Be More Valuable Than You Think. For Example, The Giving Strings Orchestra In Ohio Donates Money from Its Concert to Children's CHARITIES. The Orchestra Was Founded by Colleen Judge, A 13-Year. Old Cellist and Pianist.
And 11 -Year. Old Jacob Komar, In Connecticut, HAS Upgraded and Rebuilt More Than 60 Computers He Gives Them To Families WHO Cannot Afford He Also Teaches Kids How To Use.
If You Knit Or SEW, Garden or Raise Birds, Think About How` Your Hobby Can Benefit 0ther.
Gather and give
To make a difference, you don't have to be talented or Rich Just Find A Need And Fill It Brant Whiting, A Boy in California, DID JUS THAT. He Set Up A Program To Collect Books And Distribute Them To School Libraries. More Than 2,200 Books Were Collected In Massachusetts SchoolGirls Kristina and Lisa GiangRande Started a Hat and Mitten Drive for Needy Families They Gathere Over $ 18,000 Worth of Clothing!
If you're a pent, you know how Quickly Children Outgrow. Their TOYS. Why not find new
HOMES for Those Perfectly Good Toys'?
(Typed by steve)
Video online play:
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Change the five ways to change the community
You can make your living environment more pleasant, here you can teach you how to do
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Good use of hobbies. Extend a helping hand
You unique skills or hobbies may be more valuable than you imagined. For example, the Giving Strings, Ohio, a giving group, will donate the performance to the child charity group. The founder of the symphony orchestra is a 13-year-old cello hand and a pianist - Collin. Jiaji.
The other is 11 years old, living in Jeath in Kennedik,. Kemma has repaired more than 60 computers and updates their software. He gave them to the family who can't afford the computer, and teaches children how children use the computer.
If you will weave, sew, garden or bird, want to see your hobby how to benefit others
Collect and give
You don't need to have more versatile or rich, you can bring changes. Just find a need, then satisfy it is enough! A boy British in California Brant. Swaff is doing this. He has established a plan to collect books and divide the books to the school library; he collected more than 22,000 books. In Massachusetts, two female students, Klis Dina and Lisa. Ji'an Guiland, a hat and gloves for the need for family: They collected clothes worth more than $ 18,000! If you are a parent, you know how often you don't want to play their toys. Why don't you find a new home for those tight toys?
(Typed by steve)
Word Bank
Orchestra (N) Symphony Orchestra
Jill Plays The Violin in Her High-School Orchestra.
Upgrade (V) replace new software, upgrade
Helen Needs to Upgrade Her Computer. It's old and slow.
Outgrow (V) is separated from age (habits, hobbies, etc.)
Whe Jimmy Became A Teenager, He Quickly Outgrew His Interst in Toys.
More information
HouseBound (adj) (due to old, sick, etc.) cannot be out
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Get the ball rolling (iDiom) started, start
Mark Got The Ball Rolling by Giving The First Speech.
Talk About IT -------------
* Which of the ideas suggested in the article
Would You Most Like to Try? Why?
* Aside from these Ideas, Describe One Other Way To Make
A Difference in your community. Be Creative!
(Taken from
http://www.studioclassroom.com.tw)
