Volunteering
* Charities are organizations that help others, for example, UNICEF. You can help charities
by giving your time, money, or things that you own. Charities usually help homeless people,
orphans (children who lost their parents), and others who are helpless.
* Volunteering is when you give your time to help others. Some ways of volunteering are join-
ing a cleaning campaign in your area and visiting old people to help them or talk to them.
* Fundraising is when you collect money to help others. Some ways of fundraising are making
bread to sell, doing a sponsored activity, and so on.
* Donating is when you give your things to help others. An example of donating is giving your
old books to a library. One should be generous to give his/her things to others.
Make your own sentences using the words that are written in bold in the box above.
: Based on the short reading above, do the following.
What is it called under each situation?
1. Matewos is always willing to give his time or money. He is ___________.
2. School students are generating money to help the poor by making handicrafts and selling
them. ___________________
3. School students are cleaning their village during their vacation. _________
4. A group of people established an organization for helping people in need. They established
a ____________
5. When people have no house to live in, they are called ____________________
6. When you are unable to do things without the help of others, you are _________________.
