Surgeons Volunteer to Improve Liberian Health Care Although fighting ended in Liberia in 2003, the country remains on a long road to recovery from civil war. Poverty, a lack of development and little health care are among the challenges facing the go

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73.假日的休闲时光 常用应急场景 范例一:A special holiday Have you got any plans for the coming holiday? Yes, I have a very special one. I will be doing volunteer work in a zoo for two weeks. A friend of mine working there told me the other day that

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Terry: Olympics again! Been four years. May: Yes, But there are also winter Olympics, two years after the summer Olympics. Terry: I was a volunteer for 2000 Sydney Olympic Games. I came here just for the sentiment of it. May: Oh? You are from Austral

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By Brian Padden Washington, DC 22 November 2006 watch Thanksgiving Volunteer report The American holiday of Thanksgiving began as a harvest celebration and is intended as a day for families to get together and reflect on their good fortune. For many

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By Zulima Palacio Santa Fe, New Mexico 07 August 2007 How do you organize an international event that attracts nearly 20,000 people with just five staff members and a limited budget? Well, in Santa Fe, New Mexico, they found the answer: invite an arm

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By Mike O'Sullivan San Francisco, California 18 April 2007 San Francisco is a city built atop steep hills, and many say the city should be seen on foot. Mike O'Sullivan reports that volunteer guides share their love of San Francisco on walking tours

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Syria's Internally Displaced On the Rise Hundreds of thousands of Syrians have fled their nation's civil war and their numbers keep growing. Many are in the camps of neighboring countries. But not all Syrians seeking safety are able or willing to lea

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Senior Citizens Help Each Other Remain in Their Own Homes 老年人互助组织帮助老人在家养老 WASHINGTON With more and more of the so-called baby boomers reaching retirement age in the United States, the trend toward aging in place is gaini

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Alex Gordon volunteered in the Peace Corps in the early 1990s. He has a box full of keepsakes from the more than two years he spent building a rural school in Paraguay. 亚历克斯戈登1990年早期参加过和平队。作为和平队志愿者,他在

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By Zulima Palacio Washington 22 April 2008 Deep into the mountain state of West Virginia, a group of volunteers is determined to restore nature the way it was a century ago, before mining, logging and fires changed the landscape. To do so, thousands

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By Jeffrey Young Washington 17 April 2007 To most Americans, the governments in their towns and regional areas called counties are the governments they interact with the most. And alongside these local governments are groups of citizens who work on

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