Volunteer Programmes
Special Needs Support in Barcelona
Are you interested in being a volunteer of Special Needs Support in Barcelona? The programme enables volunteers to provide one-on-one care for people with a variety of physical and mental disabilities. At a specialized centre, volunteers can gain related experience by supporting people with disabilities.
Highlights;
The programme starts every second Monday of the month.
Affordable fees are $1,000 for 2 weeks.
It includes accommodation, meals and airport pick-up.
Animal Care in Spain
Do you want to make some four-legged friends as a volunteer of Animal Care in Spain? The project empowers volunteers to assist cats and dogs that have been abandoned (遗弃)in Barcelona. Volunteers take care of animals and improve conditions at the animal shelter in order to keep animals active and healthy.
Highlights:
The programme starts every fourth Tuesday of the month.
Affordable fees are $1,030 for 2 weeks.
It includes accommodation, meals and airport pick-up.
Forest Conservation in Spain
Do you want to help deal with climate change in Spain? The project provides a unique opportunity for volunteers to contribute to the recovery of the native forests on the Catalonia coast near Barcelona. Volunteers gain experience in fieldwork while helping the natural forest recover.
Highlights:
The programme starts every Wednesday.
Affordable fees are $425 for 1 week.
It includes accommodation, meals and 24/7 support.
Coastal Conservation in Zanzibar
Are you excited about volunteering for coastal conservation in Zanzibar? It is an opportunity for volunteers to explore the Jozani Forest.
Volunteers will gain experience by supporting local initiatives (倡议) that aim to preserve the natural environment and wildlife through a range of activities.
Highlights:
The programme starts every Friday.
Affordable fees are $540 for 1 week.
It includes accommodation, airport pick-up and 24/7 support.
It was Christmas Day, and Toddy and Tita were alone. Papa and mamma had gone to see their big boy who was ill. They had promised to be home for Christmas, but there was a heavy snow that day. The babysitter was afraid the train would be delayed until the day after Christmas. The two little girls felt so lonely that the babysitter let them play in the big drawing-room, so they lined up all the chairs in a row, and imagined it was a train.
Suddenly, they heard music in the street. They ran to the window and saw a little boy outside who was singing and beating a drum. They asked the little boy to come in. He was a little frightened at first, but he had no shoes on his feet and it was too cold for him to be outside. At last, he agreed. He told them that his name was Guido, and that he was so poor that he had no shoes, and had to go singing from house to house for a few pennies to get some dinner. And he was so hungry. "Poor little boy!" said Tita. "Our mamma is away, and we're having a pretty sad Christmas, but we'll try to make it nice for you. " The babysitter prepared a big dinner party for them. Guido had never had a dinner like it before. "It's a fairy tale," he said.
Just as the last dish came on, the door opened and mamma and papa rushed in. That night, Tita said, "Mamma, I know something. Whenever you feel sad and lonely, if you find somebody sadder and lonelier than yourself and cheer them up, it will make you all right. "
Sometimes the stress of work can get to be so high, so it's nice to get away for a while. However, even on vacation, it can be hard to leave all your worries at the office-especially when you think about the mountain of emails.
Iceland now offers a solution with a service called OutHorse Your Email. The service encourages visitors to disconnect and enjoy the country's beauty while one of several highly trained Icelandic horses replies to any email. "When visitors travel to Iceland we want them to fully experience everything our nation has to offer," one official said. "Our OutHorse Your Email service lets them do just that. "
To use the service, you should fill in a form on its website and your personalized out-of- office email will be written by one horse and sent automatically (自动地). The email explains the sender is away on vacation and that they've given their email jobs to one of Iceland's four- legged animals. It then includes the message created by the animal. But how do horses type an email? They've got their own specially designed horse-sized keyboards in the fields and are able to walk across the keys. However, that still doesn't mean coherency (条理性). They're horses, after all. The result is just meaningless collections of letters.
This might seem like a joke, but is actually meant seriously. Nowadays the line between private life and work has become unclear. The service draws attention to the fact that people have the right to be away from work during their holiday. It also sends a message that Iceland is a unique destination by helping tourists go on a real holiday. It'll surely put a smile on their face and make them want to vacation in Iceland.
Remote controls (遥控) are one of the most common symbols of our modern technologies. In fact, remote controls are an invention born in the 1800s. Famous inventor Nikola Tesla created one of the world's first wireless remote controls, which he showed for the first time at Madison Square Garden in New York City in 1898.
Tesla called his imperfect system a "tele-automaton", as he thought he needed to ameliorate it further. Tesla used a tiny boat to show his invention. Tesla sent signals to the boat using a box—the remote control he invented. The signals produced by this box changed electrical contacts aboard the boat, which, in turn, adjusted the rudder (调整船舵), allowing the operator to control the boat's way of moving. Financially, Tesla's remote-controlled boats were a failure. His intended customer, the US Navy, thought the technology was too easily damaged for war. But the idea of remote control caught on and quickly spread to many other types of equipment.
In the 1930s and 1940s, a few consumer electronics (消费类电子产品), such as garage(车 库)door openers and model airplanes, arrived with remote controls. In the mid 1950s, Zenith engineer Eugene Polley invented his Flashmatic TV remote, which used directional flashes of light to control the television. In 1956,Polley's colleague, Robert Adler, created the Space Command control, which used ultrasonic sound (超声)instead of light. And ultrasonic sound remotes were the standard for TVs until the 1980s, when remotes began to use the infrared light (红外光) signals that are most common today.
Remote controls have allowed humans to perform many tasks that would be difficult, if not impossible. And although remotes might have a long history, they are anything but over. As we continue to apply technology to our lives, it's very likely that we'll need remotes to keep things under control.
When it comes to dairy chocies, we already have a lot of "milks" to choose from. The reason is how available and cheap its main ingredient is.
Potato milk doesn't sound like the most delicious thing in the world, but then again, neither does oat milk (燕麦奶) or soy milk and look how popular they turned out to be. Plus, the potato uses a lot less land and resources than other plants that are now used for milk, which makes both the vegetable and the milk cheaper.
DUG, the world's only commercially available potato milk brand, recently made its new product on the UK market, where it is expected to make quite an effect purely based on the demand for animal product alternatives in that market.
Although the recent launch of DUG potato milk in the UK made some waves, the success of this dairy alternative isn't sure. The lack of proteins could also be a problem for some people.
The crop is twice as efficient as growing oat, in terms of land use, needs little water and has a better harvest (收获) than most plants. The new drink may have a huge hill to climb to actually compete with other plant-based milks, but it certainly has a chance to become the next popular health food.
A. It's popular with children.
B. The new dairy is very cheap.
C. But the potato milk is likely to make a big difference in its sustainability (耐久性).
D. People who have tried it complained of a salty taste.
E. However, the latest potato milk could prove to be a game-changer.
F. The company plans to expand to other European countries.
G. This new dairy alternative works great for homemade drinks.
William was one of my students. He is very positive. Each child should plant sunflowers as a class 1 . Planting sunflowers was 2 for many students, 3 , the growing part much less so. It took too long to see results from daily watering and most kids had little 4 for it. They lost interest and forgot to 5 their sunflowers, but William didn't.
Even though he 6 with his reading, he never once complained (抱怨). Still, I couldn't help but 7 . Despite his strong determination, William's grades were poor. I 8 if he'd be able to pass. 9 , to my joy, William entered into the third grade. And though I was happy for him, the worry 10 . Would third grade be too tough for him? About a month into the summer vacation, I 11 to drive by the school. I wanted to know how the sunflowers were. I saw William's sunflowers must have been at least 12 feet tall. They were strong and they faced the sun.
This is what it 12 to be a teacher. Please 13 belief has planted in our children and do our best to work for it. At that moment, I knew I didn't have to worry about William. I'd seen that special seeds 14 inside him. Others would too. One day, he'd bloom and 15 —just like his sunflowers.
Environmentalists are getting more (worry) about the effects of fast fashion on the environment. Fast fashion is the mass (produce) of clothes at a low cost. They are put in shops and online quickly (create) a high demand. Factories make 100 billion items of clothing every year. The fast fashion business model is having bad effect on the environment. Many of the clothes end up in landfills and are not recycled. Another bad effect on the environment (cause) by the chemicals used to make the clothes. These cause health problems for people (work) in clothes factories. The way people buy clothes is adding to the problem of clothing waste. Many years ago, people went to stores and tried clothes . People took more time and thought more (careful) before they bought clothes. They also wore them for longer. Today, people order cheap clothes on the Internet and if they don't like (they), they throw them away. Every year in Europe, four million tons of clothing ends up in the trash, less than one percent of is recycled.
It was Saturday—Toby's birthday party. But none of his classmates was here. He sat alone in a wheelchair in his living room, trying not to cry.
"It'll be alright, kid. Do you want me to perform some of Spider-Man's tricks?" Ron asked. Toby's mother Marissa hired him, who worked as a performer imitating (模仿) Spider- Man. Toby shook his head. "Are you sure? I bet you'll like it," Ron continued.
Marissa shook her head. "That won't cheer him up, Ron," she stated. "Toby has been looking forward to his classmates being here. It's all he wanted. It started a year ago, and it hasn't been easy. Being in a wheel chair in a school of able-bodied kids has been tough, but I wanted him to feel normal. However, children can be cruel (残忍的). "
"I get it," Ron replied. "Asked by the teacher, we handed out the invitations in class. All the kids looked excited, especially when I told them Spider-Man was coming," Marissa added. "I can't believe none of them came. "
This was caused by a boy called Bob. This boy bullied (欺侮) Toby sometimes. He had secretly told the other kids to hide the invitations and not to give them to their parents. Marissa and Toby didn't know all this.
Having no choice, Marissa said this party was over. Ron reached home. He took out his phone, looking at the photos he had taken that afternoon. He remembered how excited Toby had been in the beginning while they waited for his classmates. He also remembered how sad Toby had been at last. Ron felt sad and decided to help Toby.
Suddenly, he had an idea. He made a post on his Facebook page. He explained what had happened to Toby. And he wished people to send Toby presents to cheer him up.
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The next day, Ron's post was read by some local people.
This time, all kids including Bob showed up to celebrate with Toby.
