Article: Food banks and charities need funding to stay open. Plus, they often rely on help from volunteers. Additionally, they can typically buy more food at a lower cost than you can, so donating funds to them directly may feed more people than buying food and donating it yourself. Talk to your local food bank or organizations who are helping those in need to find out the best way you can help. For instance, your local food bank may be able to feed more people with a $10 donation than they can with $10 of food you bought at the grocery store. As another example, offer to hand out food at the food bank, serve meals at the soup kitchen, or deliver food with you local Meals On Wheels program. Food banks and charities collect food donations and distribute them to those in need. Typically, you can donate canned foods, boxed foods, and fresh foods. Ask your local organization for what they need most. If you have a membership to a bulk foods store like Costco, this is a great place to pick up food for donating. You'll get more food for your money and it tends to be the kind of easy to store items that work well for distributing to the needy. Local churches, soup kitchens, shelters, and even government organizations will take donations of food to redistribute to people who need help. Find one that matches up with who you're looking to help. You don't need to wait for a food shelter in order to distribute food items to people that you know are in need. Buy healthy food that doesn't require anything to be prepared and take it to homeless people that you see in your daily activities. For example, buy a bunch of bananas and hand them out to the homeless people downtown. Another common demographic of people that go hungry are the elderly. Older people living on their own often have limited money and may not be capable of cooking very much for themselves any more. If you know someone who's very old and might struggle making themselves a good dinner, offer to bring and have dinner with them every now and again. Good examples of foods to take include: sliced soft apples (like Gala), whole bananas, a portion of a loaf of whole grain bread, pop-open containers of tuna, soy nuts (bought in bulk, these a quite cheap and they contain a massive amount of nutrients in a very small serving), and pre-cut carrots (cut as thinly as possible). Many businesses will do donation matching. Talk to your boss about getting your business involved if they aren't already. This will mean that any money or goods you donate will be matched by your employer, effectively doubling the amount of good that you do. Some people believe the stereotype that people who are hungry aren't working hard enough. However, that's simply not true. There are many reasons why people need help, so be a voice for them. Educate the people you know about the various causes of hunger and why it's important to help people.
Question: What is a summary of what this article is about?
Support organizations that distribute food. Donate food items to local organizations. Take food directly to those in need. Get your employer involved. Fight stereotypes by educating people about hunger.
Article: Ensure that both the arms of the sweater are lying on the towel and make sure that the sweater is free from wrinkles. Roll the towel and sweater up tightly to absorb as much of the moisture from the sweater as possible. For best results, use a fluffy, absorbent towel. Hold your sweater in front of your body and gently stretch it to the width of your shoulders. Keep the sweater in this stretched position and pin it onto a cork board. Pull the bottom hem downward to lengthen the body of the sweater and then pin it in place. Stretch the arms out to the appropriate length and the pin them to the board. Use steel pins to prevent rusting. Use extra pins to make any other necessary adjustments to the size of the sweater. The wool may shrink a little as it drys. If the sweater isn't back to its usual size yet, simply stretch the sweater out a little wider and longer, and then pin it in place. Continue to stretch and pin the sweater until it is the correct size.
Question: What is a summary of what this article is about?
Place your wool sweater flat on a towel and roll up the towel and sweater. Stretch out your sweater out on a cork board and pin it in place. Check your sweater in an hour and restretch it, if necessary.
Article: In the beloved "Where's Waldo" books by Martin Handford, readers are supposed to look for a cartoon man named Waldo. Knowing what to look for is where you must start. Waldo wears a red-striped shirt and a red-striped hat. Be careful, though, because the illustrator has planted other people with red stripes in an attempt to fool you. There should be a picture of Waldo on the cover of the books. Create a picture of Waldo in your "mind's eye" by studying his picture for a few minutes. This helps your brain seek out similar colors and images in the pages. Waldo also has round black glasses, and a walking stick/brown wooden cane with a curved top.Waldo wears brown work boots. Waldo wears blue jeans with pockets. He has short brown hair with longer bangs that are swept to the right. He usually has a smile on his face. One technique that can be effective is to focus on landmarks where Waldo might be hiding out, rather than just wildly looking around. Look around landmarks like a castle moat or a blimp or other central elements to the scene. Waldo often carries objects with him. This could be a camera, camping gear, a teacup, or any other relevant accessory. Sometimes, looking for these things on the page will lead you right to Waldo! Handford has said that he didn't strive to be purely random when choosing where to put Waldo. Instead, he said that he puts "Wally when I come to what I feel is a good place to hide him." Most of the Waldo books also contain a postcard from Waldo in the top left-hand corner of the left page when you open a two-page spread. Waldo is never hidden here. Various studies have found that there are some places Waldo almost never appears on the page. Waldo is almost never spotted in the page's top left-hand corner. He is rarely located on the edges of pages, and he is never found on the bottom of the right page. Waldo is called different names around the world. He is Ubaldo in Italy, Jonas in Lithuania, Walter in Germany, Wally in the UK and Australia, and Van Lang in Vietnam. Have fun with it! Challenge yourself by scanning the page, and seeing how long it takes you to find Waldo without extra help.
Question: What is a summary of what this article is about?
Spot Waldo's clothes. Focus on landmarks. Know where else Waldo is not.