然后,当她8岁时,她所在的教会开始筹资,通过一个叫做“慈善：水源”的组织为非洲开挖水井.听说其他小孩没干净的水喝,蕾切尔感到很惊讶,于是取消了自己九岁生日的派对.她在慈善网站上建了一个生日网页,目标是募集$300美元捐款.她请朋友们别送她礼物,转为每人向“慈善·水源”捐献$9美元.最终,蕾切尔只能筹集到$220美元 - 让她有点失望.
原文如下：
Then when she was 8 years old,her church began raising money to build wells in Africa through an organization called “charity:water”.Rachel was astonished when she learned that other children had no clean water,so she skipped her ninth birthday party.Rachel set up a birthday page on the charity:water website with a target of $300.Instead of presents,she asked her friends to donate $9 each to charity:water.Finally Rachel raised only $220 — which had left her just a bit disappointed.