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Donna Peng, 2009 Beijing Team Volunteer, has decided to give her birthday presents to Dream Corps. Find out how and why you can help. 2009年北京队志愿者彭丹决定把自己的生日礼物送给梦想行动。这到底是怎么一回事儿呢？
Dear friend,
In the past two years, you might have received a lot of messages from me, inviting you to attend this or that Dream Corps event. You might have wondered, what is this Dream Corps? I know I own you an explanation.
Dream Corps is an NGO working to build libraries in rural China, founded in 2004 by oversea Chinese students like me. Since its beginning, Dream Corps has sent over 100 volunteers to rural communities of China, bring books and funds to build a local library. We share our love of reading with children there. Yes, we. Because, last summer, I became one of those volunteers. The New Century Library in Zhufang Village, just outside of Beijing, became one of my homes. A year has passed, but I still remember the days that I spent reading with the kids. I still remember their names.
Su Le. Wang Guoqing. Wang Shufan. Li Jingwen. Chai Shubin. Chai Mengyuan. Liu Weiyuan. Huang Jiacheng. Fu Bin. Ceng Kun. Wang Ye. Wang Yang. Wang Shuai. Wang Xinglong. And there's Zhang Doudou. Doudou, the five years old boy who beamed and frowned widely, showing his missing teeth.
August 12th, this coming Thursday, is my birthday. A lot of you have given me books as gifts in the past. But, today, I would like you to give gifts of books to these children. The children in Zhufang Village, but also the children in Chaling County, Hunan, the children in Nanguang Sichuan, and the children in Laochangying, Henan... There are many of them. They might be voracious readers, but they don't know that yet, and Dream Corps' mission is to provide the reading environment that they need.
I hope that you would donate to Dream Corps, and if you share our cause, I invide you to join us, to become part of Dream Corps.
Thursday will be my 22nd birthday. $22 is enough to buy 10 books in China. 10 GREAT books, selected closely by my colleagues in Dream Corps' Book Committee.
All my love and thanks,
Donna
In the past two years, you might have received a lot of messages from me, inviting you to attend this or that Dream Corps event. You might have wondered, what is this Dream Corps? I know I own you an explanation.
Dream Corps is an NGO working to build libraries in rural China, founded in 2004 by oversea Chinese students like me. Since its beginning, Dream Corps has sent over 100 volunteers to rural communities of China, bring books and funds to build a local library. We share our love of reading with children there. Yes, we. Because, last summer, I became one of those volunteers. The New Century Library in Zhufang Village, just outside of Beijing, became one of my homes. A year has passed, but I still remember the days that I spent reading with the kids. I still remember their names.
Su Le. Wang Guoqing. Wang Shufan. Li Jingwen. Chai Shubin. Chai Mengyuan. Liu Weiyuan. Huang Jiacheng. Fu Bin. Ceng Kun. Wang Ye. Wang Yang. Wang Shuai. Wang Xinglong. And there's Zhang Doudou. Doudou, the five years old boy who beamed and frowned widely, showing his missing teeth.
August 12th, this coming Thursday, is my birthday. A lot of you have given me books as gifts in the past. But, today, I would like you to give gifts of books to these children. The children in Zhufang Village, but also the children in Chaling County, Hunan, the children in Nanguang Sichuan, and the children in Laochangying, Henan... There are many of them. They might be voracious readers, but they don't know that yet, and Dream Corps' mission is to provide the reading environment that they need.
I hope that you would donate to Dream Corps, and if you share our cause, I invide you to join us, to become part of Dream Corps.
Thursday will be my 22nd birthday. $22 is enough to buy 10 books in China. 10 GREAT books, selected closely by my colleagues in Dream Corps' Book Committee.
All my love and thanks,
Donna
You can donate via Facebook cause:
or at the official website:
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你好，我的老友、损友，很久没见或是素未谋面的朋友，
也许你并不在Montreal，但是在过去的两年间，你也许收到了很多这样的邀请：
Donna希望你能参加梦想行动的XXX活动。你也许纳闷过：梦想行动？那是什么东西？
梦想行动是一个为中国乡村学校建设图书室的公益组织，今年已经六岁了。六年来，上百名来自全球各地的志愿者在每个夏天前往中国农村，带去书和修缮图书室的经费，与孩子们分享阅读的喜悦。去年夏天，我也成为了他们中的一员。于是，北京清河朱房村新世纪图书室成为了我生命中的一个点。一年过去了，不能忘记的是孩子们读书的脸。
苏乐。汪国庆。汪舒凡。李静文。柴书斌。柴萌园。刘蔚圆。黄嘉诚。付彬。岑坤。王也。汪洋，汪帅。王兴龙。还有张豆豆。豆豆，五岁，讲故事喜欢扭来扭去，写作业也磨磨蹭蹭，他最喜欢说，你真是个厉害的妖怪。
即将到来的8月12号是我的生日，以往大家送我的总是书。但是今天，我希望你们能送书给这些孩子们。他们在北京五环外的城中村里，他们也在湖南茶陵、四川南广、河南老常营。。。他们也许很喜欢看书，但是自己还不知道，而梦想行动的任务，就是为他们创造阅读的环境。
我希望你们能把替我买书的钱捐给梦想行动。如果，你有同样的愿望，我还希望你以后能来参加我们的志愿活动，加入梦想行动。
今年我22岁。$22，在国内可以买十本书，十本由梦想行动图书小组的同学们精挑细选过的好书。
谢谢大家。
彭丹
