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Rachel
lived in a small town in America. She always wanted to help others when she was
young. At the age of 5, she learned about an organization named Locks of Love.
It uses hair donations to make wigs(假发) for
children who have 1 their hair because of cancer or other
illnesses. Rachel then asked her mother to cut her long hair and send 2 to the organization.
At 8, she
learned that other children had no clean 3 in Africa, and she was shocked. When her
school began 4 money to build wells(井) there, she asked her parents
to stop holding her birthday party. Also, she asked her friends each to donate
$9 to the project in Africa 5 giving her birthday presents.
One year
later, it was her 6 birthday on June 12. She made a birthday page
on the Internet with a goal of $ 300.However, Rachel was able to raise only $
200.This made her a little sad.
Unluckily,
Rachel was badly hurt in an accident 7 eight days. That was a terrible shock to her
friends. They wanted to find some ways of showing 8 to her. They began donating on Rachel's
birthday page. Donations 9 her $ 300 goal quickly and kept rising.
When it
was clear that she would 10 come back to herself(苏醒), her parents donated her
organs(器官) to other children. They also
donated her hair a final time to Locks of Love.
More money
was being raised. The total donations soon reached $ 100, 000, and then $ 300,
000. So far, more than $ 850, 000 has been raised from all over the world,
including donations from the Africans who are moved(感动) by the little American girl.