An old man lived in a nice house with a large garden. He took care of his1all the time，watering and fertilizing them.
One day a young man went by the2. He looked at the beautiful flowers，imagining how happy he could be3he lived in such a beautiful place. Then，suddenly he found the old gardener was4. He was very surprised about this and asked，"You can't see these flowers. 5are you busy taking care of them every day？"
The old man smiled and said，"I can tell you four6B. First，I was a gardener when I was young，and I really like this job. Second，7I can't see these flowers，I can touch them. 8 ， I can smell the sweetness of them. As to the last one，that's9. "
"Me？But you don't know me，"said the young man.
"Yeah，it's10that I don't know you. But I know that flowers are angels that everybody likes. We enjoy the happiness these flowers have brought us. "
The blind man's work opened our eyes and pleased our hearts，which also made his life happier.
In Europe，many people were killed during the Second World War，so at the end of the war，there were many orphans. A man called Hermann Gmeiner wanted to help these children. His idea was simple. He wanted the orphans to have a home. And he wanted them to have the care and kindness of parents. Gmeiner asked people to give money. With the money，he built the first SOS Children's Village in Australia. It opened in 1949. This is how the SOS Children's Village started. The letters SOS are short for"Save Our Souls"，which means"Please help us. "An SOS Children's Village gives help to orphans.
Hermann Gmeiner's idea for helping orphans soon spread all over the world. By 1983，there had been seventeen SOS Children's Villages in the world. China has also built SOS Children's Villages. Now，more and more people like to work in the SOS Children's Villages.
