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Teacher gifts free bikes to students
閱讀難度：★★★☆☆（學校生活）
Words: about 310; Time: 5.5 minutes
語篇導讀：為了讓孩子們能夠擁有一個快樂的童年，一位老師在網上發起活動，籌集了足夠的錢，給學生們買了自行車。
When first-grade teacher Katie Blomquist realized that most of the students at her school couldn’t afford a bike, she set out to provide each child in the student body with their own.
Last week, after 7 months of planning and waiting, that dream came true as she was able to provide the 650 students of Pepperhill Elementary School in North Charleston, South Carolina with new bikes, helmets (頭盔), and locks.
“When those parachutes (降落傘) went up and the kids started screaming (尖叫), I could not have felt happier. Kids were hugging each other, jumping up and down, screaming! It was more than I imagined,” she told The Huffington Post.
Last September, Blomquist started a campaign on GoFundMe called “Every Kid Deserves A Bike!”
“I see directly the difficult hands in life some children are dealt,” she wrote in her GoFundMe campaign. “Many do not have the chance to visit places outside their community (社區) or have a lot of different experiences over weekends and the summer; rather, many children play on their street with neighborhood kids or watch television.”
“I soon began to think how each student’s quality of life could improve if they had more freedom to ride around their neighborhoods,” she added.
Blomquist finally raised a little over $80,000. In addition to the bikes, helmets and locks, the money was also used to pay for the company who brought the bikes to the school and stored them overnight.
“A bike means so many things,” Blomquist told The Huffington Post. “It means a sense of freedom, exercise, but most importantly it’s about a basic childhood right ― a right to joy.”
Now, Blomquist has created a GoFundMe for her new charity (慈善團體), which is called “Going Places,” and has the task “to bring joy to deserving children from poor families by providing them with bikes, swimming lessons, summer camp opportunities, and more.”
From: www.huffingtonpost.com
Help:
deserve v. 值得：You deserve a rest after all that hard work.
【思考】 你的老師曾經做過哪些讓你難忘或者感動的事情？
語音要點：
後語：堅持是一種信仰，專注是一種態度！每一次您的轉發，就是對我們的認同和鼓勵！親們，喜歡就積極轉發吧，您的每一次轉發，都是我們持續的原創動力。原創的路上感恩有您一路同行！！！
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