When pet get sick, you can usually take them to an animal doctor or an animal hospital. Sometimes animals are so sick or hurt that you shouldn’t move them. That’s why Dr. Bird, a veterinarian, has a traveling hospital. Dr. Bird drives his hospital, which is really a van, to the animals.

Dr. Bird has run the hospital for over 10 years, and he has saved the lives of many pets. The van has an operating table, medicines and everything else he needs to treat animals. Dr. Bird says that there will soon be many more traveling hospitals to help sick or injured animals.

At my local bakery(面包店) in Turkey, I’ll sometimes see the owner give someone a loaf of bread without any money. At other times, a customer will pay for two loaves of bread but only take one.

Askida ekmek, which means “bread on the hook(挂钩)”, has its beginning in Islam(伊斯兰教). It works like this: you go to a bakery and pay for two loaves of bread but only take one. On paying for the bread, you tell the person who takes the money that one of them is askida ekmek. The bread you give them is bagged and hung together with others, so when people come in during the day and ask, “Is there bread on the hook?” they can take a loaf for free.

The giving of bread (ekmek) is of special importance in Turkey because in Islamic belief bread means life and the protection of life is great.

“Bread is very important for eating and helps people know how bad hunger is,” Armanios said.

At the heart of askida ekmek — whether that’s leaving a loaf of bread in a bakery or helping some poor students outside their studies — is helping people, with no wish of return so that the people who ask for the bread on the hook can keep themselves from being looked down upon and go on with their lives.