Katelyn Haslebacher is a 14-year-old student at Sunset High School, Texas, US. She loves elephants. She has elephant bags and toys and puts elephant pictures on her bedroom wall.

Haslebacher’s love of elephants has encouraged her to do something for the animals.

For her year-long eighth-grade project, she started a foundation (基金会) called All Ears Elephant. The foundation gives medical care and other help to elephants.

As a violinist, Haslebacher had a concert online to raise money for the foundation last year. She made the whole thing herself—she asked different people to hand in songs, put them all together and uploaded (上传) the final work to the Internet. “It was great,” Haslebacher’s mother said.

Haslebacher raised nearly 4,000 dollars (about 26,000 yuan) and gave the money to two elephant sanctuaries (保护区).

The process of donating blood doesn’t take very long. If you’re willing to donate blood, you can go to a nearby Red Cross donation centre.

When you arrive at the centre, you can first read some information about donating blood. Then you need to fill in a form and tell the doctor your medical history. After that you’ll receive a health check. It’s important for doctors to know your health conditions. They must make sure they are collecting safe blood.

When it’s time to donate, you’ll sit in a comfortable chair or lie in bed. A nurse will clean part of your arm and use a needle to get the blood into a plastic bag. Several minutes later, the process is over. The doctor will place a small bandage (绷带) over the needle mark.

Before you leave, you’ll be given biscuits and milk, as well as a donation record card. It’s important to avoid too much exercise a few hours after donating blood. Remember that the Red Cross does not pay for blood. All donors (捐献者) are volunteers.

Are you looking for something fun? Would you like to help others in your spare time? Then join us to be a volunteer! We’re a non-profit (非营利的) organization (组织). We have volunteer jobs of all ages. Anyone, from twelve-year-old children to people in their seventies, can become a volunteer.

You can help people in many ways. Schools need help in taking care of children while their parents are working. Hospitals need volunteers to look after children while their parents are seeing a doctor. Animal lovers can help take care of those dogs and cats without homes. There is something for everyone.

“As a volunteer, I don’t want to get anything. Seeing the children’s happy faces, and I’m happy, too.” said Carlos Domingo, an old woman of 62. “I often played computer games in my spare time before. Now I help older people learn how to use computers,” said another volunteer at the age of 18.

If everyone helps out a bit, we’ll have a better world to live in. Interested? Call us at 555 - 5756 or visit our website: www.activol.com.