Have you ever heard of the “free lunch” program? It’s 10 years since the program s【小题1】 in 2011 at Shaba Primary School in Qianxi, Guizhou Province.
The first group of students who received those early meals have graduated from college. Children now at the school no longer feel hungry. They chat generously and e【小题2】 confidence in their healthy growth. Their Putonghua is much better than that of their parents, so they often act as translators for local people. “I’ll work hard and become a policeman to p【小题3】 a lot of people in the future,” one child said with confidence.
Before the project began, students who lived far away had two choices at noon. They had to e【小题4】 walk back home for lunch or just skip (跳过) lunch. If they didn’t have lunch, they had to wait to eat at night after finishing a whole day’s classes on an empty s【小题5】.
Deng Fei is one of the major supporters. With the h【小题6】 of 500 volunteers, he called on the Children Foundation to carry out the free lunch program in April 2011. They devoted themselves to providing free lunches for poor children. In this way, they helped these children a【小题7】 hunger and grow up healthily.
Today, the project has a【小题8】 expanded (扩张) from Guizhou to 26 other provinces and areas, helping more than 370,000 students in need eat lunches at no cost. Altogether, more than 240,000 children receive healthy and d【小题9】 lunches on any given day at 1,076 schools across the country.
Zhang Yan, a supporter of the charitable project, said, “After 10 years, we can see the light of wonder in the children’s e【小题10】. Their hope is the whole point.” She was moved to tears when she told her stories.
