Carly Zalenski’s eyes were filled with tears as the dusty bus ran down a dirt road in southern Vietnam. She and her parents had travelled to Ho Chi Minh City by plane from Canton, Ohio of the USA. As they became
to the village, hundreds of cheering
stood in lines at the
to the Hoa Lac School, a two-story building that Carly had
money for.
Carly started helping
when she was eight. She often walked about to send Thanksgiving baskets at church to families in need. When she saw one girl
very little in a snowy day and others didn’t have warm
, she went door-to-door asking for
coats, hats, gloves, and scarves, then handed them
to the poor families with the baskets.
However, Carly wanted to do
more—she wanted to “change these children’s
with her efforts”. She remembered that her grandmother’s Rotary club had collected money to build a
in Vietnam a few years ago. She wanted to build a school,
.
She put together a short show on the people and culture of Vietnam to his audience.
her new braces(脚支架) made it
to make the speech, she was full of enthusiasm, “I want to give them a place to
their lives better.”
That summer, Carly
with her family across Ohio, visiting three or four Rotary clubs a week. “We travelled like
people to all these meetings,” said her mother. In two years, Carly had raised $50,000. At the donation
in Hoa Lac, the school principal was deeply
by the little girl. “How wonderful it is,” he said, “that a girl at her age wants to do something for kids so far away.”
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