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Nicanor
Quinteros, a 12-year-old boy from Argentina, is just like any boy of the same age.
The only thing that makes him 1 is
that he runs his own school!
Nicanor
2 the
idea of starting a school when he saw some of his classmates drop out of school
because they didn't have the money for the bus ride or the shoes to wear to school.
Nicanor asked his grandma 3 he
could build a school next to their house. She gladly 4 his idea and together they began to carry it out.
In the backyard of his house, Nicanor and his grandmother used canvas(帆布) and sticks to create the classrooms and fruit boxes to serve as chairs.
Nicanor's 5 did
not end there. He travels 4 kilometers by bicycle every day from school to teach
the children in his own school. Sometimes he even runs classes at night for 6 who cannot attend them in the daytime.
Four
years 7 since
then, and with the help of neighbors and kind people, Nicanor has been able to build
two more classrooms and a small library. He 8 has his own headmaster's office. This community
school now has 36 students. All of them love it and work very hard. The city leader
also came to help when he 9 what
Nicanor did. He said, "I am so proud that we have a 10 of our own!" And he is right.
Nicanor has encouraged many people, not just in Argentina, but around the world.