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Six Volunteer Activities

Six different volunteer projects took place around the town last month.

A- Beach Clean-Up
Early last Saturday, a group of students met along the shore with gloves and sacks. They picked up plastic bottles and torn fishing nets for three hours. Afterwards, the council weighed the rubbish they had gathered and announced that almost two tonnes had been taken away.

B- Food Bank
Every Tuesday evening, helpers sort donated rice, flour and tinned food into boxes for families. A retired teacher keeps the record book so that no household is forgotten. The boxes are then carried to twelve flats near the railway station.

C- Tree Planting
The residents met on the hillside behind the school to plant four hundred young trees. Although the soil was hard and the sun was strong, nobody left before the last seedling was in the ground. A forestry officer promised to water them every week.

D- Animal Rescue Centre
Two teenagers spend their weekends washing kennels and walking rescued dogs. They also photograph each animal for the centre's website. Because of those pictures, nine dogs found new owners within a single month.

E- Blood Donation
A mobile clinic was parked outside the community hall on Sunday. Each person was given a short health check before donating, and was then offered biscuits and warm drinks. The nurses filled eighty-six bags that day.

F- Reading Buddy
Every Wednesday, secondary students read picture books with children who find lessons difficult. The pairs sit in a quiet corner of the library. Teachers say that the younger pupils now speak far more confidently in front of the class.

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Volunteering

Volunteering brings people of all ages together and makes a town a better place to live. Before a clean-up begins, every helper is handed a pair of strong gloves, a sack and a bottle of water. Everything that the group picks up is later weighed at the depot, because the council keeps a record of how much waste leaves the beach each year. Planting work needs patience too: a seedling is only about thirty centimetres tall, so it has to be held upright while the soil is pressed around it. Others give their free time to a shelter, where abandoned cats and dogs are fed and exercised until a family takes them home. Whatever the task, people who turn up regularly say the hours pass quickly.

Notes
A newly planted tree is called a (37) ______ and has to be held straight in the soil.
Rubbish from the beach is (38) ______ at the depot so that the council can keep a record.
(39) ______ are handed out so that nobody hurts their hands on sharp rubbish.
Abandoned cats and dogs are cared for in a (40) ______ until they find a home.