INPUT ARTICLE: Article: You can do this by contacting your local social service department or religious/charity organization. Find out what you can do to help locally and what is needed. Support local homeless shelters.Give time and/or money to your local shelters to make sure they survive. A lot of shelters have been moved out of the city areas where they are most needed because they are "unsightly." Volunteer at local shelters and soup kitchens. This will give you a chance to meet the people who use them, thus giving poverty a face and a voice and discuss with them what they need. Pay attention to the laws and bills being enacted in your local area, or country. Weigh in against laws that seek to punish the poor, simply for being poor. Support a living wage and basic labor protections for workers so that people can afford to live off their earnings, rather than being forced to two-three minimum wage jobs that barely feed them and their families. Contact your local Senator or Representative by phone or mail and tell them you want increased spending on anti-poverty measures (there is a wikiHow for how to contact your Senators and Representatives. You can find their public address and phone numbers by typing in your area code on www.Congress.org). A phone call will only take 15 seconds and you won't be asked any questions. Elected leaders want to give what people in their constituency want, so if enough people call wanting more spending on anti-poverty measures, then Congressmen will endorse bills that accomplish that. Donations, especially monetary donations, to certain local organizations will make a huge difference in fighting poverty in your community. Most organizations that work to alleviate poverty have tight budgets and little funding and they need all the help they can get from community members. Give your time to your charity organizations. Help in a soup kitchen or food bank particularly during holidays. Donate toys and clothes to a food bank. Make sure that the clothes and toys are in decent condition and aren't stained or ripped. Donate food. Food banks need nutritious, non-perishable foods like meals in a can, peanut butter, canned meats, canned fruit and veggies. Also donate unopened spices. Spices are too expensive for most people who are homeless or poverty-stricken, but they can make all the difference in making a meal taste better.

SUMMARY: Locate where the need is in your community. Support laws and bills help alleviate poverty. Donate.

In one sentence, describe what the following article is about: Craft stores sell plastic or felt hats that are ready for crafting. Buy one in green if possible, but if you can only get them in white, try spray-painting the hat green before starting. Top hats or derby hats are great for this! You can also use a real hat for this method. Cut a 3 inches (76mm) by 2 inches (51mm) rectangle out of yellow construction paper or fabric. You should have a rectangular shape that looks like a window--a border with an empty space in the middle. This will be your buckle. Spread a layer of school glue or glue stick to the buckle. Sprinkle gold glitter on it, then let it dry. Be sure to shake off any excess glitter before using the buckle! Use the same kind of material you did for the buckle. The band should be about 2 inches (51mm) wide, and it should be long enough to wrap completely around the base of the hat's brim. Glue the buckle to the center of the band. It should look like the buckle is holding the band in place, just like a real buckle. If you are using fabric, you can sew them together instead. Use craft glue to attach the band to the base of the hat's brim. If you used fabric and your hat is made of cloth, you can sew them together. If your hat is made of plastic, be sure your glue is plastic-safe.
Summary: Buy a ready-made craft hat. Cut out a rectangle window out of yellow paper or fabric. Add glitter to the rectangle. Cut a 2 inches (51mm) black band. Glue the buckle to the band. Glue the band to the hat.

INPUT ARTICLE: Article: Listening to Arabic music is a great way to immerse yourself in the language as well as become more familiar with common words and phrases. The typically repetitive nature of song lyrics reinforces the words and phrases in your mind. Major music streaming services typically have an Arabic channel or Arabic playlists. Check with your favorite streaming service to find out what's available. If you happen upon an artist that you like, search them online. You may be able to download their albums or watch music videos for some of the songs you like. Movies and television allow you to listen to more natural Arabic conversations. Many popular movies have also been dubbed into Arabic, so if you find a movie you're already familiar with, you'll find you start to comprehend a lot more of what's going on and what the characters are saying. Fantasy and historical drama tend to be dubbed in Modern Standard Arabic (MSA), while contemporary comedies and dramas are usually dubbed in either Egyptian Arabic or Levantine Arabic. Reality television tends to use a limited vocabulary and exposes you to more realistic unscripted conversations. You likely learned how to read in your native language with simple children's books. This is also an effective way to start reading Arabic. Copying the sentences from the stories can help you practice your writing as well. For free children's ebooks, visit http://www.childrenslibrary.org/icdl/SimpleSearchCategory?langid=309. Visit the Arabic Collections Online at http://dlib.nyu.edu/aco/ to access more than 10,000 free digitized books in Arabic. Use sticky notes to write the Arabic word for objects in your home and label them. Every time you see the object, repeat the Arabic word for that object aloud. Over time, you'll come to think of that object by its Arabic name first. This can be a great way to expand your vocabulary as well as get your brain used to thinking in Arabic. Extensive Arabic vocabulary lists are available at http://arabic.desert-sky.net/vocab.html to help you create your labels. Once you've committed your first set of labels to memory, take them off and use different labels. Generally, it's a good idea to go from large to small so you don't get confused about what the label applies to. For example, you might first label your sofa as a whole, then add labels for "arm" or "cushion." Al Jazeera has a website available at https://learning.aljazeera.net/en that offers news as well as basic learning stories and videos in basic Arabic to help you learn the language. From the website, you can also take language level tests or chat with an Arabic teacher. Even if you don't use the video resources, you can take advantage of the online dictionary available on the site to look up words you don't know. Al Jazeera broadcasts and language lessons primarily focus on Modern Standard Arabic (MSA). However, you'll also find lessons on Mediterranean Arabic. The ultimate test of immersion is spending time in a country where the majority of the people speak Arabic. Simply sitting at a cafe and listening to the conversation around you can help improve your comprehension. Try to go to a country that speaks the form of Arabic you've been studying, or you may find you have a difficult time understanding people despite your study. For example, if you've been studying Levantine Arabic, you would want to travel to Lebanon or Jordan rather than to Egypt.

SUMMARY:
Listen to Arabic music. Watch movies and television in Arabic. Read children's books in Arabic. Label items around your house with their Arabic names. Practice reading and listening comprehension with Al Jazeera. Travel to an Arabic country.