Carly's eyes filled with tears as the dusty bus drove down a dirt road in southern Vietnam. The 14-year-old girl and her 1 had traveled by plane from Canton, Ohio, to Ho Chi Minh City and then by bus deep into the Mekong Delta. Now, as they reached the village, hundreds of cheering 2 lined the entrance to the Hoa Lac School, a two-story building that Carly had 3 money for.
When Carly was eight, she started 4 others by giving Thanksgiving baskets in the church to families in need. It was a snowy day, 5 she saw that one girl was wearing only a shirt and that others didn't have 6 coats. The next November, she went door to door 7 used coats, hats, gloves, and scarves, and then 8 them out with the baskets.
But Carly wanted to do 9 -she wanted to "change their lives". She 10 that her grandmother's Rotary club had, years, earlier, collected money to build a 11 in Vietnam. That was it, she decided. She'd build a school too.
She tried to let people 12 more about Vietnam and the 13 there. She gave speeches. She 14 with enthusiasm. "The kids in rural Vietnam don't have beautiful schools," she told a room of 200 Rotarians. "That's not 15. I want to give them a 16 to make their lives better." That summer, Carly set off with her family across Ohio, 17 three or four Rotary clubs a week. "We traveled like crazy people to all these 18 ," recalled her mother, Kris.
In two year, Carly had collected $50, 000. At the dedication ceremony(落成典礼)in Hoa Lac, the school principal was 19 with the girl. "How wonderful it was that a girl of her age wanted to do something for kids so 20 , " he said through a translator.
