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When she was little, Gladys Kalema liked to play the piano. One day when she was at her piano, a monkey climbed up to join her.    1    It also planted the seeds of a dream in her mind. The girl wanted to work with animals when she grew up. This dream came true when Kalema was in her early twenties. She became a wildlife vet（兽医）in Africa.

    2    Since then, Kalema has never stopped caring for wild animals. She does her best to save the mountain gorilla（山地猩猩）. This animal is in great danger. But she doesn’t just protect the individual（单个的）animals. She puts her focus on helping the local communities.

Many local people lived a poor life. Some of them made money by hunting wild animals. Kalema wanted to protect these animals from bullets (子弹). The key to doing so, she realized, was to improve the local people’s quality of life. The woman provided these people with fast-growing crops. By growing the crops, the locals could feed themselves and make a living. They no longer needed to go hunting. Slowly, their attitude towards these wild animals began to change.    3    

So we can save animals by saving people.

Last month, Kalema received the Champions of Die Earth award for her work. It is the United Nations’ highest environmental honour.    4    You can learn from Kalema and start by getting to the root of the problem.

【推荐3】Evelyn Topper was leaving a coffee shop with her granddaughter Mikayla Gounard when she dropped her wallet. She did not realize it until she got home. Topper went into a panic as soon as she saw her wallet was gone. She had cash as well as all of her credit（信用）and medical cards in it.

The next day, Topper received a phone call that saved her confidence in the world.

Sean Curry, a homeless man, found the wallet in a dustbin（垃圾箱）behind the coffee shop. The cash was gone, but all the other things were in it. Though Curry had been homeless for years, he still didn’t want to take the wallet for himself. He tried to return it.

Topper praised Curry for what he had done, but he didn’t think he had done anything unusual. He told NBC he gave the wallet back because he had always been taught that way at home.

Curry wasn’t expecting anything for this, but Topper’s granddaughter Mikayla Gounard had other ideas. She’d already planned a party for her upcoming 12th birthday. And instead of presents, she’d asked for donations that would be given to a charity. Gounard hadn’t chosen a charity yet. However, when she learned what Curry had done, she knew exactly where she wanted her donations to go.

On the day of her party, Gounard placed a collection box next to a photo of Curry. By the time the party was over, she’d raised several hundred dollars.

When Gounard and her mother met up with Curry the next day to give him the money, he couldn’t believe what the girl had done for him. Gounard explained she’d simply done the right thing like Curry.

【推荐2】A long walk is a good way to keep healthy, but for Emma Reade, it’s also a way to help to feed people. Emma, 6, is taking part in the FootSteps Challenge (步数挑战). FareShare, Australia’s biggest charity (慈善) kitchen, runs it.

Every year, thousands of Australians don’t know where their next meal is coming from. The workers in FareShare are there to help. They call themselves “happy bees”. They get surplus (剩余的) food from supermarkets and restaurants and cook it into free, delicious and healthy meals for Australians in need. Also, they raise (筹集) money to help feed people in need by running the FootSteps Challenge.

Participants (参与者) have to walk, run, ride or even swim to meet their goal (目标) of 25 km, 50 km, 100 km or 150 km over 15 days.

Emma hopes to move 100 km to raise money for FareShare. So far, she’s finished 19 km, well on the way to meeting her goal of $2000. She wants to get her friends to join her.

“Moving makes you feel happy and helping other people makes you feel happy, too.” Emma said. The little girl likes all kinds of moving. Every school day she is walking, running or riding 1 km. Then at the weekend she is doing a lot more. “I feel great about Emma,” said her mother Nicole. “We think it’s important to try our best to help other people.”