【推荐1】Because the frequent children safety issues occur in Duchang, such as traffic accidents, drowning, etc. World Vision started to pay attention to the left-behind children problem in Duchang. Since 2007, Duchang Project Office has done lots of projects and activities in both communities and schools to take care of the left-behind children and build their confidence.

In recent years, World Vision strengthened its cooperation with communities by setting up children entertainment areas in communities, inviting women volunteers to look after the children, setting up left-behind children care centre, etc. Such strategies not only provide children a safe place to play at, but also enhance villagers’ sense of helping each other, and promote their awareness and capability of looking after the left-behind children.

The rising attention being paid to the left-behind kids has won supports from migrant parents. In recent years,more and more parents take an active part in activities held by World Vision. They will spend more time together with their children. “I do want to see my child as long as I’ve got time”,“How can we not care about our kids when knowing others putting so much efforts on them? said the parents. They took leave to get back to the village to see the performance of their kids. During the performance, the kids all unconsciously stared longer at the crowd, hoping to find their parents. The participation of parents brought hope to kids who have been waiting for long.

Support from the school was a huge encouragement to World Vision staffs. As more and more young teachers accepted training from World Vision, more diverse activities have been held in the campus. As a result, left-behind children can enjoy a better environment with greater self-confidence.

【推荐2】At the age of 50, Nina Schoen expects to have a long life ahead of her, but has thought a lot about death—and why people are so reluctant to talk about it: “It’s going to happen to all of us,” she says, “but it should be a more positive experience than the fear we put into it.”

When she first heard about a new end-of-life process that turns the body into compost (堆肥), “I was really moved by the idea,” says Schoen, who became one of the first to reserve a spot with a Seattle-based company called Recompose, the county’s first funeral home to offer human composting.

Last year Recompose began transforming bodies to soil, more formally known as natural organic reduction. Before that, end-of-life options in the U.S. were limited to burial or cremation (火化), both of which come with environmental costs—U.S. cremations alone dump 1.7 billion pounds of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere every year.

Katrina Spade pioneering the composting movement has spent a decade developing the process in hopes of offering people a greener option for death care. “I wondered, ‘What if we had a choice that helps the planet rather than harms it?’” Spade tells PEOPLE. “To know that the last gesture you’ll make will be gentle and beneficial and it just feels like the right thing to do.”

After she had her own two sons, she began to wonder what she might do with her body after death. A friend who knew her interest in the topic reminded her that farmers sometimes compost the body of cows, and that sparked an idea for her theory: “If you can compost a cow, you can probably compost a human,” she thought, and she set about designing a facility to do just that.

“This is about giving people another choice,” Spade says. “At first, people react with shock—‘You really can do that?’ But so many people today are looking at their impact on the Earth. This is a popular thing because when you die, you can give back to the planet.”

【推荐1】As Aristotle said, no one would choose to live without friends, even if he had all other goods. But have you ever made friends online? What exactly is an online friend? What’s the difference between an online friendship and an offline one?

A person you know only through the Internet (which includes social networking sites like Facebook, Instagram and Pinterest) or email and will seldom, if ever, meet is considered an online friend. Online friendships can develop in places like forums (论坛), gaming sites, blogs, online groups or even from websites that help you meet friends.

An online friendship begins when two people bond with each other, just like an offline relationship. They may share photos, email each other, or chat on the phone finally. The friendship can become a source of support and provide emotional benefits even though the friends will never meet in real life.

Online friendships can be valuable during times when you lack (缺少) friends or have just moved to a new city or country. But in order for a friendship to be truly real, you need to communicate face to face. That isn’t to say that an online friendship can’t hold a special place in your heart or give you the kind of acceptance and support your desire. What it means is that this type of friendship will be very different. In an online friendship, people can hide their true personality. You’ll never see them lose their temper (脾气) or show you how they act when they’re tired or hungry. They have the choice to always show their best selves, always say the right thing and even avoid upsetting you with subjects they bring up during small talk or a deeper conversation.

An online friendship can feel very real. However, since you can hide behind the computer, it isn’t exactly the same as when you have friends you can meet in person.

【推荐2】Mark never stops socializing with his friends online.

Where am I? What am I doing? If you’re one of my 500 friends online, you’ll always be the first to know. As soon as I open my eyes in the morning, I check through all my social networking apps, read my emails and answer text message.     1     .

I live in a university dorm with a couple of great roommates. Yet the truth of the matter is:       2    . According to research, over two-thirds of young people find it easier to make friends online than it is “in real life”. I’m way beyond a shy or reserved person, but I’m wired up every day. On the surface, I have an active social life. I attend parties and play sports but I’m always distracted. They say that phones bring people closer together but in reality, my mind is always a million miles away.

       3     . Sometimes I set deadlines for myself: I will start doing my homework at 8 pm, and aim to finish in two hours. At 7: 50 pm, I’m still scrolling through my friends’ silly posts and photos. Before I know it, it’s 9: 30 pm and I still haven’t moved an inch from the sofa. My friends try to drag me away from my phone, but as soon as I’m alone again, I’m desperate to get back to the online world and the intense activity that it provides.

I constantly feel depressed, dissatisfied and alone.     4    , I keep delaying things that are important in my real life: homework, tasks, connecting with my friends and family members in a meaningful way. It’s funny that my friends and I chatter away online so much, but we end up having nothing to say when we meet. And the extraordinary thing is nobody thought this was rude; it’s just how life is nowadays.

What is really worrying is that no one I know could go cold turkey. I can’t even imagine going without social networking for a week! After all, I need it for my studies because my teachers and classmates need to contact me at any time.     5     . We’re hard-wired in, but we’re more disconnected than ever.