Now many children are in Mrs Read’s house. They’re having a birthday party for Mrs Read. They are from different countries(国家) and they are of different ages. They all call Mrs Read “Mum” though(尽管) she isn't their own(自己) mother. Mrs Read looks after(照顾) them very well, and they all love her.

Sam is an eight-year-old American boy. He is a student in Mrs Read’s class. Diana is ten years old. She’s an English girl. She is in Mrs Read’s school, but she is in Grade Six. Jack is a Chinese boy. He and his sister Sarah are both in Mrs Read’s class. There is also a Japanese boy in Mrs Read’s class. His name is David. He is nine years old.

“Our parents are all very busy with their work. Mrs Read is very nice. She cooks for us and she helps us with our study. She is just like our mother. We all love her.” says Sam.

Thanks to the Spring Bud Project, Yu Guowen became a researcher in Beijing from a mountain girl. This project mainly provides education for the rural（农村）girls.

In 1995, when Yu was in primary school, illness was the main cause of her family’s poverty（贫穷）. However, they didn’t have enough money to buy medicine. Her parents made a living by farming, but they never allowed her to drop out of school.

In 1989, our country started the Spring Bud Project. It called on everyone to help girls return to school. Ten years later, Yu got its help and got into university. In 2019, she finished all the study.

Yu always volunteers to take part in social（社会的）work. At university, she volunteered to work in hospitals so she could help people who had difficulty hearing and speaking. She also volunteered to teach at a school. She thought everyone should try to help those children who have difficulties going to school.

Stephen Fabes worked as a medical doctor in a hospital in London. He loved his friends, job and life in the city. However, he was also thirsty for an exciting journey. One day, he came up with the idea of traveling around the world and cycling the length of six of the earth’s continents. Hoping to experience and learn about the world in a personal way, he decided to cycle across the world to help treat sick people and raise money for charity.

In January 2010, Fabes waved goodbye to his family and friends outside St Thomas’ Hospital, where he worked and set off on his bicycle. It took him six years to complete the journey. He covered more than 86,000 kilometers, which was more than twice around the planet or 89 times the length of Great Britain. He visited remote hospitals along the way and cured patients in 75 countries. Fabes made all his long way by bicycle just because it allowed him to visit the remotest places where poor people did need his help. During his trip, he kept a travel blog to share his interesting stories with people from all over the world. His book “Signs of Life: to the ends of the earth with a doctor” will be published by Profile in August 2020. It will tell people about his valuable experience.

According to Fabes, life on the road was exciting and eye-opening. He went through amazing mountains, deserts and salt flats on his bike. He not only enjoyed the wonderful views of different places, but also used his skills to volunteer at a lot of hospitals and charities. However, the trip wasn’t always fun. In fact, sometimes it was really dangerous. But Fabes never thought of giving up.