对未来的希望，Hope for the future,

刘三子是湖南省一个村庄的八岁男孩，Liu Sanzi is an eight-year-old boy from a village in Hunan Province,

他的父母想让他辍学， His parents want him to drop out of school,

对他来说，在他们的农场工作很重要，因为刘家有七口人，他们非常贫穷，It's important for him to work on their farm because there are seven people in Liu's family and they are very poor,

14岁的李英明来自甘肃省漳县，Li Yingming is 14 and from Zhangxian in Gansu province,

他几年前就不上学了 He stopped going to school a few years ago,

他的父母生病了，他必须照顾他们， His parents have been ill and he has to look after them,

许多像刘三子和李银明这样的孩子因为家庭贫困而无法接受教育，Many children like Liu Sanzi and Li Yinming can't get an education because their families are poor,

现在他们可以在希望工程的帮助下上学， Now they can go to school with the help of Project Hope,

在过去的15年里，该项目筹集资金并支付了250万农村贫困学生的教育费用， In the last 15 years, this project has raised money and paid for the education of two point five million poor students in the countryside,

国内外捐资22亿元， People in China and abroad have given two point two billion yuan,

有了这笔钱，希望工程建造了许多学校和图书馆，With this money, Project Hope has built many schools and libraries,

它还培训了教师，把学生送到了高中， It has also trained teachers and it has sent students to high schools,

去年，来自山西省的男孩沈进了一所没有电、只有几本书的学校， Last year Shen, a boy from Shanxi Province, went to a school with no electricity and only a few books,

但今年他在一所新学校，有大教室和很多书， But this year he's at a new school with big classrooms and lots of books,

希望工程为此付出了代价， Project Hope paid for it,

大多数中国人都听说过希望工程，并捐款， Most people in China have heard of Project Hope and have given money,

但是4000万贫困家庭的孩子仍然需要帮助。 But 40 million children from poor families still need help,

因为希望工程，成千上万的儿童有了更好的生活 Because of Project Hope, thousands of children have better lives,

也许我们都应该问：我们能为希望工程做些什么？我们能帮忙吗？ Perhaps we should all ask: What can we do for Project Hope? How can we help?