One day, my son Ryan said, "I'm going to keep working until everyone in Africa has clean water. " I thought, oh, boy! But I'd heard about encouraging children to be 1 and dream big dreams. So I didn't want to say that he couldn't make a(n) 2 .
At first, he planned to make money to build a 3 in Africa. But when he 4 his first $70 made by doing chores in neighborhood to a charity (慈善机构), he was told that it actually5 $2, 000 to build a well. It was a lot of money, but Ryan didn't 6 . He persuaded his classmates and neighbors to give money. And I wrote to the local newspaper to make his story go 7 . After several months, Ryan had 8 the $2, 000, with which a well was built near a primary school in Uganda. The children at the school 9 needed to walk for hours to get water. They were 10 to him and invited him to visit.
In Uganda, Ryan saw the well with his own eyes and hundreds of students who had turned out to 11 him. Seeing that he really had 12 these children, he broke into a 13 smile.
Now there is a Ryan's Well Foundation. His dream has14 the lives of so many people, most of whom we will never meet. Ryan has shown me what the 15 of dreams can do.
