英语听力：自然百科 圣河之旅 The Ganges 恒河—8

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 Swami is also head of foundations sponsoring free schools, a clinic, orphanages¹, and he is trying to organize a cleanup of the river Ganges. I'm very well, thank you, sorry to keep you waiting. Welcome home. Thank you very much indeed. Everything is amazing. There are often hundreds of foreign visitors staying at the ashram, paying just a few pounds for a simple room and a chance to experience a completely different way of live, the ashram is also home to 200 local boys from disadvantaged backgrounds who receive academic and spiritual education as well as food and shelter. I'd been presented with a tree, watered by the Ganges, i was told it symbolized² the life giving power of the water and need to protect the river.