US teacher's $5,000 gift grows into 50,000 trees
In 1999, American teacher Ronald Sakolsky was teaching in China when he saw a TV report about Yin Yuzhen's efforts to combat desertification in Inner Mongolia. Intrigued, Sakolsky spent two months raising $5,000 to aid her cause. Over three decades later, his modest contribution had grown into a forest of more than 50,000 trees, and the two had reconnected as friends.
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