There were a family of nine: the father, the mother, two boys and five girls. The father worked as a kitchen cleaner at a local school and the rest of the family did the same job-----clean people’s yards. 小题1: Then one day, the father lost his job at the school. He asked me if I could allow him to clean my yard. 小题2: He and his family came to our house three times a week to clean the yard. One Sunday morning, the father suffered a stroke and died in the hospital two days later. The poor family had lost their main bread-winner. The eldest boy had just completed high school and was getting ready to go to college. 小题3: For the following years, Andrew, my husband and I did all our best to help make sure the family got their education, and provided some daily needs, like clothes. 小题4: . They didn’t have a toilet in their home! Imagine! A mother, a fifteen-year-old girl, and four smaller children without a toilet or bathroom! The next morning, my friend Peter came to my house. Then I told him I wanted to do something for the poor family. As a helpful man, he promised to offer some money. So together we built a bathroom and a toilet for this family in three days. 小题5: . And we felt happy, too.
F.We visited the family once and one thing made us greatly surprised. G.You would be surprised to know that this poor family lived in just two rooms! |