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Crossroads International
How does crossroads work?
Crosswords is a resource network. We take goods Hong Kong doesn't want and give them to people who badly need them. We collect those goods and give them out in the welfare agencies in Hong Kong, Mainland China, elsewhere in Asia, Eastern Europe and Africa____
Who do we help?
____ They are grass-root groups who have seen a need and tried to meet it. They can't get the job done without backup, though, so our task is to help them do their task. Our warehouse (仓库) is full of goods, from computers to high chairs, clothing to books, cupboards to dining sets. They send us a list of their needs and we try to match it with the resource we have in stock.
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Crossroads itself also operates on a low budget. We do not buy the goods we send. They are donated. Similarly, rather than raising funds for freight (货运), we ask transport companies to donate their services____Even our full-time staff work on a voluntary basis.
What can you do?
____ While we receive large quantities of goods and there is never a short supply of requests for them, we are always in need of hands to help sort and prepare them for shipping. If you are volunteering regularly, we can offer work in some of the categories, some of the time.
A. What do we need?
B. How do we operate?
C. So Crossroads is just that: a Crossroads between need and resource.
D. Nobody in our organization receives a salary.
E. One resource that we are always in need of is people.
F. welfare agencies we help do not run on large budgets.
G. All volunteer work is done at our warehouse.
