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　　Paralympic Games Begin in Brazil

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　　Rio de Janeiro is home for the next 11 days tothousands of athletes competing in the 2016Paralympic Games. The Paralympics are aninternational sporting event for athletes with physicalor intellectual impairments.

　　The 4,300 athletes come from more than 160 countries.

　　As the opening ceremony took place Wednesday night, event organizers were dealing withbudget concerns. They blame slow ticket and sponsorship sales.

　　The president of the International Paralympic Committee told the Associated Press, "This is theworst situation that we've ever found ourselves in at the Paralympic movement."

　　Organizers are hoping to sell more than 2 million tickets to the sporting events. A total of 2.5million tickets are available.

　　In Britain, Prince Harry is helping them reach that goal. He provided a personal donation to thehashtag Fill the Seats movement. It is seeking to raise ticket money so that 10,000 Brazilianchildren can attend the Games. Hashtag Fill the Seats was started by Greg Nugent, who servedas a marketing director for the London 2012 Games.

　　Nugent told The Canadian Press in August, "the idea that the seats in Rio might be emptysaddened me, so instead of moaning, I thought we should try and do something about it."

　　The hashtag Fill the Seats movement announced earlier this week that it had raised a littlemore than $200,000. That is about two-thirds of its goal amount of $300,000.

　　Prince Harry and the hashtag Fill the Seats movement trended on social media.

　　One Twitter user called Prince Harry's act inspiring.

　　Another tweeted, "If we didn't like Prince Harry enough already..."

　　In 2014, Prince Harry established the Invictus Games, a competition for wounded Britishservice members.

　　Earlier this week, he tweeted good luck to all the Invictus athletes getting ready for the RioParalympic Games.

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