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DEVELOPMENT REPORT

July 29, 2002: Tools for Development


By Jill Moss 1



(Photo -CARE)
This is the VOA Special English Development Report.


Building things or making clothes can be difficult in developing countries, especially without the correct tools.
However, an international humanitarian 2 organization called CARE is trying to change this. CARE runs a special
program called Tools for Development to help workers in developing countries.


The Tools for Development program sells used tools and equipment at low cost to people who have small
businesses. The tools are priced low enough so that poor people can buy them.


Roy Megarry (Ma-GARY) started Tools for Development fifteen years ago. At the
time, he was the publisher of the Globe and Mail, a Canadian newspaper. Mister
Megarry got the idea for the program while visiting a technical training school for
boys in Lima, Peru.


The Catholic 3 priest 4 who operated the school told Mister Megarry that the school
needed equipment for its training program. Mister Megarry sent a letter to the
president of Sears Company in Canada requesting help. The company gave
equipment to the school in exchange for advertising 5 in the newspaper. Today, Tools
for Development receives free equipment and gifts from companies and organizations all over the world.


Since the program began, more than two -thousand people have purchased more than six-thousand tools and
equipment. They paid a total cost of one-million -two-hundred-thousand dollars. Mister Megarry says at least ten-
thousand jobs have been saved or created because of the program. Money gained from the sale of the tools is
used for loans, training and shipping 6 costs.


People can buy many kinds of equipment through Tools for Development. For example, there are tools for metal
workers, shoemakers, pipe builders, clothing makers 7 and people who fix vehicles. Some computers are also sold.


Tools for Development is currently 8 operating in Ecuador, Costa Rica and Jamaica. However, CARE is hoping to
expand the program to other developing nations. You can learn more about Tools for Development. Write to
CARE Canada, the Globe and Mail newspaper, four-four-four Front Street West, Toronto, Ontario, M-five -V,
two-S-nine, Canada. Or you can visit the CARE Canada Internet Web site at w-w-w-dot-c-a-r-e-dot-c-a.


This VOA Special English Development Report was written by Jill Moss.



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n.苔,藓,地衣
  • Moss grows on a rock.苔藓生在石头上。
  • He was found asleep on a pillow of leaves and moss.有人看见他枕着树叶和苔藓睡着了。
n.人道主义者,博爱者,基督凡人论者
  • She has many humanitarian interests and contributes a lot to them.她拥有很多慈善事业,并作了很大的贡献。
  • The British government has now suspended humanitarian aid to the area.英国政府现已暂停对这一地区的人道主义援助。
adj.天主教的;n.天主教徒
  • The Pope is the supreme leader of the Roman Catholic Church.教皇是罗马天主教的最高领袖。
  • She was a devoutly Catholic.她是一个虔诚地天主教徒。
n.神父,牧师,司铎,司祭,领导者,神甫;vt.使成为神职人员
  • He confessed to a priest that he had sinned.他向神父忏悔他犯了罪。
  • The priest visited all the old people in the parish.牧师探望了教区里的所有老人。
n.广告业;广告活动 a.广告的;广告业务的
  • Can you give me any advice on getting into advertising? 你能指点我如何涉足广告业吗?
  • The advertising campaign is aimed primarily at young people. 这个广告宣传运动主要是针对年轻人的。
n.船运(发货,运输,乘船)
  • We struck a bargain with an American shipping firm.我们和一家美国船运公司谈成了一笔生意。
  • There's a shipping charge of £5 added to the price.价格之外另加五英镑运输费。
n.制造者,制造商(maker的复数形式)
  • The makers of the product assured us that there had been no sacrifice of quality. 这一产品的制造商向我们保证说他们没有牺牲质量。
  • The makers are about to launch out a new product. 制造商们马上要生产一种新产品。 来自《简明英汉词典》
adv.通常地,普遍地,当前
  • Currently it is not possible to reconcile this conflicting evidence.当前还未有可能去解释这一矛盾的例证。
  • Our contracts are currently under review.我们的合同正在复查。
学英语单词
admiralty brass alloy
air-dry concentrates
altitude traverse
back-stab
balance of international payment
be pressed
be stinking rich
bemingling
boo bunny
brucellosis vaccine
cash basis
chelatomery
Chilean peso
company profit
compression fittings
corrugated zincification sheet roofing
Craig effect
daphyllite
daring
deposit insurance system
digitatum
dioxypyrimidine
electron trajectory
emphysematous colpohyperplasia
expanding brake
explosion proof equipment
expressive style
extended storage
extraction heater
field garlic
fine tuning control device
floody
force transferring lever
forced torsional vibrations
geomagnetism
giftie
Glacier Bay
graded particle
Hoffman, August Wilhelm von
hydrofoil support ship
Iaai
idle revolution
inax
instant mashed potato
isopanoses
joria
juice powder
Kadomskiy Rayon
ken
light-gauge plate
link file
lo tso wu
low temperature pump
lung dart
mask off
medium plain emery wheel
Meleagrina
memory with short access time
mesochymal
Miliusa velutina
munificency
narcissus oil
neighbo(u)rhood averaging
network for location
newscaster
oxx
pardao
photon-counting
Piloptic
praseodymium iodide
protraicte
redraftings
retarder operation
revolutes
safrol(e)
sales structure
schizochromism
Smith-Purcell effect
solasonidinee
soodled
spartakiad
standard output function
statistic algorithm
stimulus filtering
strata eboris
stringfellow
sun-blink
swollen-headed
tataw
the class
thermionic vacuum tubes
thumbscrews
transfer office
unconducive
unit record volume
ventral lymph-sac
virtual carrier frequency
wacked
wall-projected shelf
wizardesses
yuriys
zygotic embryo