Do you want to be a volunteer? Maybe you need some ideas. Here is some advice.

Help kids learn and grow. Be a big brother or sister at an after-school care centre. You can help little kids to learn or play with them.

Give back during the holidays. Serve dinner to the homeless, volunteer at an old people’s home, or give out toys to kids.

Help at an animal shelter (庇护所). Most shelters need volunteers to keep the cats and dogs happy and take them to exercise. And when you’re walking dogs, you get some exercise, too.

Protect the environment. Take part in a park clean-up day. Plant a tree. Join a group to work together to protect a river.

Help sick people. Helping others can make you feel good. When you make sick people happy, you also feel happy. If you have several hobbies, find a way to do them all. For example, if you love kids and are good at painting and dancing, visit a children’s hospital and teach them these interesting things.

James Michener, a famous American writer donated at least 90 percent of what he made from his 43 novels. He seemed to donate more than this. At his death, in October 1997, he had given away US $117 million.

Michener made a good example, not just in how much he gave, but in his style of giving. The writer worked hard at doing good. He usually follows up his donations to see how the money was used and he had a lot of fun in doing so.

Michener was 90 when he died. He was the only writer on the list of Americans top 25 philanthropists(慈善家). He gave his donations to the college he went to. Michener gave to his college—US $ 72 million to Swarthmore. He said, “I am from a family without any money, the college made me from darkness into light.”

Michener was married 3 times, but he had no children. For his last 15 years, he lived quietly in Austin, Texas. He moved there to write the 1000-page novel. The film called South Pacific was inspired(启发) by his first book, Tales of the South Pacific, written when he was 40.

Cristiano Ronaldo is a great soccer player. He plays soccer very well and he is handsome. He has lots of fans around the world. Now, he is the most popular person on Instagram. He has over 300 million followers.

The Portuguese soccer star made a video to thank his fans. In the video, Ronaldo said when he was young, his dream was to become the best soccer player in the world. Now he is very happy because it has come true.

Ronaldo is also known for his work for charities, such as UNICEF and Save the Children. And he gave over $1 million to the hospitals in his country during the COVID-19 pandemic.

If you want to know how much influence Ronaldo has, please look at this. On June 14, before Ronaldo gave a talk he saw two bottles of Coca-cola on the table. He moved them away and put a bottle of water in front of him because he thought water was a healthy drink. This act made Coca-Cola lose about $4 billion.