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Thomas Barnardo was born in Ireland in 1845. He was not very successful at school, but he wanted to help people. He moved to London and started to study medicine. London was full of poor children at that time. Barnardo decided to help and opened a school for poor boys. The school was popular, Barnardo was a good teacher. He had a lot of ideas and all his ideas needed money.

In 40 years he raised £3,250,000. It was huge amounts of money! Barnardo made friends with rich and important people, he wrote letters and made speeches. He started a club for Young Helpers with 34,000 teenage members who raised money for the poor children. He also sold photos of children before and after they received help. These pictures made his work famous, and showed people their money was really making the lives of poor children better.

Barnardo opened not only schools, but homes for boys who had nowhere to go. Barnardo and his staff went into the streets looking for children who needed help. The boys learnt to make shoes and brushes, and earned money by carrying messages (there were no telephones then). In 1873, he opened his first home for girls—and later there was a Girls’ Village to help many more. It had 70 houses with 1,000 young women.

Barnardo was so busy that he did not become a doctor until 1876. His next idea was to pay people to take care of homeless children so that they had families. He helped many more go to Canada and Australia (but not everyone thought this was a good idea). When Barnardo died in 1905, he had helped thousands and thousands of people and made their lives happier.

99. Where did Barnardo study medicine?

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100. How was the school that Barnardo opened for poor boys?

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101. What did Barnardo do to raise some money for the poor children?

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102. Did Barnardo open homes for poor children besides schools?

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103. How many young women were there in the Girls’ Village?

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104. Why did Barnardo pay people to take care of homeless children?

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105. What do you think of Barnardo?

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More than 200,000 members of Beijing’s driving associations（协会）are being asked to leave their cars at home at least one day a month in the hope of improving air quality in the capital. Their aim is to reduce traffic jams and noise, and improve air quality as well. More than 100 Beijing-based drivers’ clubs started the work on Monday.

―I love driving, but I’m ready to make more blue-sky days in Beijing,‖ said Lu Chuan, a film director and a former environmental ambassador (大使) who helped raise public awareness of pollution problems in China. Lu said he planned to make improvements to his car to make it more environmentally-friendly. He also plans to ride his bicycle and walk more often in the future

There are more than 2.6 million motor vehicles in Beijing and the number is increasing by more than 1,000 a day, said Du Shaozhong, from the Beijing Environmental Protection Bureau (环保局). Motor vehicle emissions (排放) are the main cause of Beijing’s air pollution, Du said. According to the city’s environment