Everyone may have a chance to make the world a better place. Teenagers can make a difference, too.

Kyle Van Der Velden is     1     16-year-old student in Wayne Hills High School. One day in school, he noticed a cleaner throwing away a lot of pencils. The cleaner told Kyle that he got pencils every day when he cleaned up the classroom. But he did not know what to do     2     the pencils, so he just threw them away.

One day, Kyle got some information from the Internet. Some people     3     poor countries needed pencils badly. So Kyle decided to collect pencils to help them. Later, Kyle joined a group called Right-to-Write as a volunteer. The group sends pencils     4     people around the world. They collect pencils and put them into bags. Then they give the bags to people who are traveling to poor countries. These travelers will give the pencils to people in need.

Kyle goes to different schools to collect pencils. He     5     collected 3, 790 pencils in just one month. What a good job he has done!

2 . Do you want to make our city a better place? Join us and volunteer together.

3 . Have you ever done voluntary work? Today I want to share Sun Ke’s story with you. Sun Ke and other 16 students from Beijing University spent one year as teaching volunteers in the country’s underdeveloped(欠发达) western areas. That was the 13th such team that the university had sent student volunteers to teach for one year in Tibet(西藏) , Qinghai, Yunnan, Xinjiang, Ningxia and Shanxi since 1999.

Sun Ke volunteered as a geography teacher at a middle school in Tibet. One day, he asked each of the students to buy a map for geography studies, but only three students bought the map because they were poor.

“I have heard stories about poverty(贫穷) of kids in these areas on TV before, but I was really sad when facing such a fact myself.” he said.

Sun decided to buy the maps for the students with his own money. “When I walked into the classroom with the maps, they broke into tears, and so did I.” Sun said.

The volunteers learnt a lot through working in the western areas. “We realize the value of our work and feel the responsibility.” they said, “We believe no matter how hard it will be, we will surely do it better. ”

6 . Charity Walk

The Sunshine Youth Fund organized a charity walk around Tai Shek Lake on Sunday, September 6th. It was very hot and wet on that day. Over two hundred people came and joined in the event, and it raised $ 120, 700. The money will go to Project Oasis in Malaysia, which will help provide clean water for some far away villages.

The top donations and the lucky draw results are as follows: