Have you ever heard of a famous charity called Operation Smile? We hope we can help you understand how we are trying to help children all over the world.

Operation Smile was started by a doctor and his wife. In 1982, together with some volunteers, they went to Philippines to help children who had holes in their lips or inside their mouths. It was very difficult for them to eat and drink. These volunteers worked very hard. But they worried that they could not carry on with the work because they were short of money. Then they decided to start a charity so that they could help these needy children. They called it Operation Smile.

Operation Smile works in more than twenty developing countries and has cured over 300,000 children who have problems with their mouths. Operation Smile has won many prizes for its work and in 1999 they even started a special event called “The Journey of Hope”. 5,000 children in 18 countries were cured during the event.

On the other hand, Operation Smile trains local doctors and nurses in developing countries so that they can continue to help children when Operation Smile has left. As to the children with much more serious problems, they will send them to the USA for further treatment.

So show your kindness to the needy children now. You can send your donation to Operation Smile at local banks. Many thanks from the children who can smile now will come to you.

Robert Lee grew up in New York. Because his family wasn’t ______, he learned from a young age that it’s important to cut down on food waste. ________ he was at school, he joined a student group to deliver leftover to people ________ homes. This experience made him ________ how serious the problem of food waste was.

After ________ school, Lee and a friend started a club called Rescuing Leftover Cuisine. Its _______ is to get unsold food from restaurants and deliver it to people who need food. The members take the leftover food from restaurants around the city and ________ it to those in need.

Lee and his team make an APP ________ for the club. Restaurants use it to give them the _________ about how much leftover food they have each day. Then members get the food and give it out. Lee’s club is a(n) ________ now. He and his team have delivered over 150,000 kilos of food, ________ almost 300,000 meals to people who need them.

Lee just does a(n) ________ thing but he has really improved the ________ of people around us. But Lee says that ______ work isn’t over. “It is ______ the beginning. The need is so great that we need to do a lot more.”