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D GOAL Plan How to Raise Money
Reading 🎧68 (Optional)
A A charity is an organization that raises money to help people, animals, or the environment. Look at the logos for three charities and discuss the questions.
1. Do you know these charities? What do they do?
2. How do charities raise money?
B MY WORLD What charities are important in your country? What do they do?
C Read the first paragraph of the article. Check (✔) two sentences that are true about crowdfunding.
1. ⬜ A lot of people give money online.
2. ⬜ It's only for people who want to start a business.
3. ⬜ It can help musicians who want to make an album.
4. ⬜ It's not very useful for charities.
D Read the rest of the article. What do these numbers refer to?
$125,000 65 feet 7,700 square miles
E Complete the table. Use your notebook to write extra information.
| Problem | Action | Result | |
| Sonam Wangchuk | People needed water. | ||
| Size of Wales | It saved 7,700 square miles of rainforest. |
✔️GOAL CHECK
In groups, plan how you will raise 20,000,000 dong for one of these charities:
• a group that gives free food to families in need
• a charity for dogs and cats that needs a new building
• a children's hospital that needs medical equipment
Plan how you will raise money. Design a poster for your charity. Present your ideas and poster to the class.
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Crowdfunding for a Better World
One of Sonam Wangchuk's ice stupas in Northwest India
"Crowdfunding" is a way of raising money from a large number of people on the Internet. When crowdfunding began, it was mostly used by new businesses. Nowadays, people use it for different reasons. Musicians who want to make an album can ask fans for money, a photographer can get money for a new book, and different types of charities raise money this way. Here are examples of how crowdfunding has made a real difference in the world.
Bringing water
Sonam Wangchuk, an engineer, raised $125,000 on a crowdfunding site to build an "ice stupa." In higher parts of the Himalayas, the glaciers are disappearing, so local people have less water in the spring for crops. Sonam invented a way to bring water up the Himalayas in the winter from the lower parts of the mountains. As water comes out of a pipe, it freezes and becomes the 65-foot-tall ice stupa. Then, in the spring, the stupa melts and people have water for their fields.
Saving the rainforest
The organization "Size of Wales" wants to save rainforests because they are disappearing. It has already saved 7,700 square miles of rainforest (the same size as the country, Wales). Crowdfunding is important for the organization because people give money, but it's also a good way to make people think about climate change.
So if you want to give money to a charity, visit a crowdfunding site-or, if you want to raise money for a charity, why not try crowdfunding for yourself?
raise money (verb phrase) get money from other people for a special reason (e.g., for a charity or a business)
stupa (n) a religious lower in Buddhism
glacier (n) a river of ice that moves slowly down a mountain
melt (v) when ice becomes water
