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Broadcast: August 18, 2003
This is Steve Ember with the VOA Special English Development Report.
One of the biggest problems in developing1 countries is hunger. An organization called Heifer International is working to improve this situation. The organization sends needed farm animals to families and communities around the world.
An American farmer, Dan West, developed the idea for Heifer International in the nineteen-thirties. Mister2 West was working in Spain where he discovered a need for cows. Many families were starving because of a civil war in that country. So Mister West asked his friends in the United3 States to send some cows. The first Heifer animals were sent in nineteen-forty-four.
Since that time, more than four-million people in over one-hundred countries have had better lives because of Heifer animals. The organization provides families a chance to feed themselves and become self-supporting. It provides more than twenty kinds of animals, such as sheep, goats, pigs and cows. In one recent year Heifer International helped more than thirty-thousand families in forty-six countries.
To receive a Heifer animal, groups must first explain their needs and goals. They must also make a plan which will allow them to become self-supporting. Local experts usually provide training. The organization says that animals must have food, water, 1)shelter4, health care, and the ability to reproduce5. Without them, the animals will not remain healthy and productive6.
Heifer International also believes that groups must pass on some of their success to others in need. This belief 2)guarantees that each person who takes part in the program also becomes a giver. Every family that receives a Heifer animal must agree to give that animal's first female7 baby to other people in need. Families must also agree to pass on the skills and training they received from Heifer International. This concept8 of “passing on the gift” helps communities become self-supporting.
You can learn more about Heifer International and how to request an animal. You can write to the organization at Heifer International, Post Office Box eight-zero-five-eight, Little Rock, Arkansas, seven-two-two-zero-three, U-S-A. Or you can visit the group's Internet web9 site at www.heifer.org.
This VOA Special English Development Report was written by Jill Moss10. This is Steve Ember.
注释:
1) shelter [5FeltE] n.身避处,庇护所
2) guarantee [7^ArEn5ti:] vt.保证,担保
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n.掩蔽,掩蔽处,避身处;庇护所,避难所,庇护;vt.庇护,保护,隐匿;vi.躲避 | |
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