A woman came to my house on a very cold night. She told me, “I have a family w    30     eight children. They have not eaten for d    31    .” Later I asked her where the family was. I took some food with me and went out.

When I finally got to that family, I s    32     those little children were too hungry to say a word. There was no sadness in their eyes, just the deep pain of hunger. I g    33     the food to the mother. She divided it into two, and went out. She c    34     half the rice with her. W    35     she came back, I asked her, “Where did you go?” She gave me this simple a    36    , “To my neighbbours’ houses—they are also hungry!”

I was not surprised that she gave the food to her neighbours. B    37     poor people are always very kind. But I was surprised that she k    38     her neighbours were hungry. Usually, when we are in t    39    , we always care about ourselves first, and we have no time for others.

Volunteering means spending some of your free time helping others. You may volunteer to help other people, but you can also volunteer to do something good for animals, the environment, or any other things that you care about. Volunteering helps others, but it can also help you. If you are worried about something that happened, doing something can be a great way to deal with your feelings. Volunteering can let you see your own life in new ways. For example, if you don’t have the most expensive shoes or the newest computer game, you may find it difficult to stop yourself from worrying about things like grades or getting angry. Volunteering lets you spend some time on others. Doing voluntary work is a great way to have fun with your family. Here are some ideas on how you can do the work together:

Now some schools ask kids to spend some time helping others because volunteering gives them a sense of duty（责任感）. Why can we say that volunteering gives kids a sense of duty? The reason is that volunteering can make kids feel needed by some people. Volunteering can also help kids learn important things about themselves. A voluntary job can even help some kids understand what to do when they grow up. So what are you waiting for？