Rachel lived in a small town in America. She always wanted to help others when she was young. At the age of 5, she learned about an organization named Locks of Love. It uses hair donations to make wigs(假发) for children who have 1 their hair because of cancer or other illnesses. Rachel then asked her mother to cut her long hair and send 2 to the organization.
At 8, she learned that other children had no clean 3 in Africa, and she was shocked. When her school began 4 money to build wells(井) there, she asked her parents to stop holding her birthday party. Also, she asked her friends each to donate $9 to the project in Africa 5 giving her birthday presents.
One year later, it was her 6 birthday on June 12. She made a birthday page on the Internet with a goal of $ 300.However, Rachel was able to raise only $ 200.This made her a little sad.
Unluckily, Rachel was badly hurt in an accident 7 eight days. That was a terrible shock to her friends. They wanted to find some ways of showing 8 to her. They began donating on Rachel's birthday page. Donations 9 her $ 300 goal quickly and kept rising.
When it was clear that she would 10 come back to herself(苏醒), her parents donated her organs(器官) to other children. They also donated her hair a final time to Locks of Love.
More money was being raised. The total donations soon reached $ 100, 000, and then $ 300, 000. So far, more than $ 850, 000 has been raised from all over the world, including donations from the Africans who are moved(感动) by the little American girl.
