VOA标准英语2009年-Returning IDPs Lack Basic Services in Kord

A new report by the International Organization for Migration¹ finds an overwhelming majority of the nearly two million Internally Displaced People and refugees who have returned to Southern Kordofan, a state in Sudan, and to Southern Sudan continue to lack the most basic services and facilities. People who fled the conflict in the south have been returning home since the Comprehensive Peace Agreement was signed in January 2005 ending more than 20 years of civil strife².

This report has been in the works for the past three years and its findings are grim. Spokesman for the International Organization for Migration, Jean-Philippe Chauzy, says conditions are so bad that about 200,000 people who had returned home after years in exile have left again.

He tells VOA they went to other villages and other areas that could provide them with the basic facilities and services lacking in Southern Kordofan and Southern Sudan.

"The report shows, for instance, that access to drinkable water is one of the main challenges that returnees have to face once they go back to their villages," said Chauzy.

"We also have noticed that hand pumps that were put in villages to make access to drinkable water easy for those returnees, but also for the host population that stayed in South Sudan-that most of those hand pumps have broken down and have not been repaired," he added.

As a consequence, Chauzy says a third of all communities continue to use rivers and unprotected wells as their main source of water.

A team of 1,400 trained staff from the South Sudan Relief and Rehabilitation³ Commission and the Voluntary Reintegration Committee has been tracking the returnees for the past three years. Its aim was to make sure people were getting enough assistance and that the returns were sustainable.

Chauzy says their conclusions are dispiriting. He says the team found access to adequate healthcare remains⁴ extremely scarce and most places have no health facilities whatsoever⁵.

He says close to 80 percent of the villages assessed do not have direct access to basic primary school. And the few schools that do exist are simple outdoor facilities.

He says the region desperately⁶ needs to attract skilled professionals, such as doctors, nurses, and teachers to return to help rebuild their communities.

"IOM has been running a program now for the past three years that tries to encourage the return of the qualified⁷ or the highly qualified displaced or refugees or migrants who are in various countries, developed countries-to try and encourage them to do short-term or longer-term assignments in their areas of origin in South Sudan," said Chauzy. "It is a return of qualified nationals of qualified displaced people."

IOM Spokesman Chauzy says the program is meeting with some success. But, he cautions that this alone is not enough to fix everything. He says it is no magic silver bullet. He says a lot more help is needed from the humanitarian⁸ community to make these returns sustainable.

While it is important to help people return to their homes of origin, he says it is also important to have the conditions necessary to keep them home.

1 migration   

n.迁移，移居，（鸟类等的）迁徙

参考例句：

• Swallows begin their migration south in autumn.燕子在秋季开始向南方迁移。
• He described the vernal migration of birds in detail.他详细地描述了鸟的春季移居。

2 strife   

n.争吵，冲突，倾轧，竞争

参考例句：

• We do not intend to be drawn into the internal strife.我们不想卷入内乱之中。
• Money is a major cause of strife in many marriages.金钱是造成很多婚姻不和的一个主要原因。

3 rehabilitation   

n.康复，悔过自新，修复，复兴，复职，复位

参考例句：

• He's booked himself into a rehabilitation clinic.他自己联系了一家康复诊所。
• No one can really make me rehabilitation of injuries.已经没有人可以真正令我的伤康复了。

4 remains   

n.剩余物，残留物；遗体，遗迹

参考例句：

• He ate the remains of food hungrily.他狼吞虎咽地吃剩余的食物。
• The remains of the meal were fed to the dog.残羹剩饭喂狗了。

5 whatsoever   

adv.（用于否定句中以加强语气）任何；pron.无论什么

参考例句：

• There's no reason whatsoever to turn down this suggestion.没有任何理由拒绝这个建议。
• All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you,do ye even so to them.你想别人对你怎样，你就怎样对人。

6 desperately   

adv.极度渴望地，绝望地，孤注一掷地

参考例句：

• He was desperately seeking a way to see her again.他正拼命想办法再见她一面。
• He longed desperately to be back at home.他非常渴望回家。

7 qualified   

adj.合格的，有资格的，胜任的，有限制的

参考例句：

• He is qualified as a complete man of letters.他有资格当真正的文学家。
• We must note that we still lack qualified specialists.我们必须看到我们还缺乏有资质的专家。

8 humanitarian   

n.人道主义者，博爱者，基督凡人论者

参考例句：

• She has many humanitarian interests and contributes a lot to them.她拥有很多慈善事业，并作了很大的贡献。
• The British government has now suspended humanitarian aid to the area.英国政府现已暂停对这一地区的人道主义援助。