Let’s read aloud first. 最初に声を出して読んでみましょう。
One organization, the El Nafeza Foundation, was launched in 2005 in Egypt. It is an officially registered NPO that hires deaf workers to help improve the lives of disabled people in the country. The foundation makes paper from rice straw, employing deaf individuals in the paper-making process. This provides them with job opportunities. The organization uses a 5,000-year-old Chinese method to produce paper from rice straw. Various handicrafts are then made from this paper. In Egypt, rice is cultivated, and after the harvest, farmers typically burn the rice straw. With over 4.5 million rice farmers in Egypt, approximately four million tons of rice straw are burned annually, causing significant air pollution, especially in Cairo, the capital of Egypt. By making paper from rice straw, the foundation has a positive impact on reducing Cairo’s high pollution levels.
NPO (特定非営利活動法人), deaf (耳が不自由な人), straw (わら, 稲の茎の部分), handicraft (手芸品), harvest (収穫)
Questions:
- Who makes the paper?
- From what is the paper made?
- Is rice grown in Egypt?
- Which method do the NPO use to make the paper?
- What are made from the paper?
- Which bad thing is generated by burning rice straw?
- Have you seen paper being made from straw?
- Do you know any other method of making paper? Explain.
- What is your opinion?