It's "BABY DAY" at the Chartwell Riverpark seniors' residence(住所)in Ottawa. Eulah Johnson,90, never _______the twice-monthly event.

Today, Johnson sits on a sofa and smiles at a baby sitting on the seat of her walker. After a few moments, the girl_______ to play with the dozen or so other small children _______ together with 20 of Johnson's fellow residents. As the _______ eat snacks and drink tea or coffee, their young guests crawl(爬行)around, draw in colouring books, bat balloons back and forth or sleep in the arms of delighted residents.

Babies Who Volunteer, bringing these _______ together, is the inspired idea of Jessica Turner. During a(n) _______ with her baby daughter Amelia to a friend's mother, who was living in a long-term-care center, people gathered around Amelia, wanting to play with her. She was most _______ by the response of her friend's mother: she hadn't spoken in two years, but with Amelia in her lap, she began singing.

Turner went home and immediately put out a _______on a moms' Facebook group: would anyone be interested in_______ seniors' residences with their babies? One hundred Women quickly said yes.A year later,there are now 1,500 volunteers.

Everyone benefits from intergenerational programs. This playgroup is ________ for the mothers, too. They're giving something to the community, which provides a ________of purpose and belonging. It can really ________ someone who is feeling alone.

Local________ is growing: the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario Foundation, ________, has donated$25,000. With the help of charitable donations, Turner hopes to expand programming from baby visits to having school kids communicating with ________ pen friends, and seniors teaching kids how to bake.

A little girl grew a 40-pound cabbage, feeding 275 people. Now, she’s ______it her life.

Most children have______such as playing outside and swimming with friends. But this little girl has a hobby that’s_______from all of her friends. And it was this hobby that has_______her to be able to help her community.

____Katie Stagliano was around 9 years old, she was given a class project to _____her first cabbage in her home garden. It didn’t even take long to______and begin to grow. As friends came over, they pointed out it is ______than any of theirs. They asked her what she had ______and she just told them that she watered it every day. But it didn’t ______long for it to grow bigger and bigger. It grew so large that the cabbage______weighing 40 pounds! Kate then decided that she could use this cabbage to do something ______for the community. So she took the huge cabbage to a local soup kitchen, where they_____ it with ham and rice. Because of her cabbage, 275 poor people were     _______ .

She began to realize that _____and helping people are what she likes to do most. So, she decided to______her first garden on the land.

Katie is now 18 years old, and has set up her own non-profit organization called “Katie’s Krops” with the_______of her family friends. She has ______over 200,000 dollars! And there’re over 100 “Katie’s Krops” in the US. She     _______gardening and loves encouraging other children to experience the______of gardening as well.

While volunteering in Tanzania, my wife and I got the idea of what we call a "street library” because children in our neighbourhood were able to read but had no _____at all.

We had an idea to make books ____to local children who wanted to read. We ____a famous international charity for collecting money. We ___ books in three book stores of the capital city. My wife Sue ___ all , 180 books with sticky-backed paper to keep them clean. A local man made some _____ to store the books. I made some a “library cards" and _____with a tailor called Saddiqi, who agreed to keep the boxes in his ____and to run the library. The library was ______to open!

Anyone could ____ with their name and their parent's mobile phone number, Saddiqi gave them a _____ with a number, with which they could read the books only in his shop. I decided it was better to do that than let readers ____ the books. There is no ____ to join the library. Within five days we had over 100 _____ and more were joining each day! Even though the books are ____ for children in different, grades of difficulty, ____ were using the library for free, too.

This side-project was, I think, one of the most ____ things we did in Tanzania. It was in some way a thank-you gift to our_____ for welcoming us so warmly into their lives，. The whole_____worked together on the street library and that's surely part of the reason it is still ____ after we left.