联合国儿童基金会致力于营救儿童生还者

UNICEF Focuses Efforts on Tsunami¹ Child Survivors²

联合国儿童基金会致力于营救儿童生还者

 

The director of the United Nations' Children's Fund, Carol Bellamy, says child survivors are beginning to return to school in the nations hit by the December 26 tsunami. The UNICEF chief says reopening schools are a sign of recovery in the hard hit Indian Ocean region.

 

U.N. relief officials are now saying that half the victims of the tsunami were children, raising their previous estimate of one-third. Ms. Bellamy say the global children's' fund is now focusing its efforts on children who survived, trying to unite them with their families and protect them from exploitation.

 

Ms. Bellamy says getting schools up and running is a top priority for the children's well being and a key to long-term recovery. The tsunami damaged thousands of schools in the region and killed or injured thousands of teachers.

 

Carol Bellamy: For one thing, getting children back into schools keeps them safe. It focuses them on constructive³ activities and it gives their families hope, a little extra peace of mind. It brings a little bit of normalcy into the child's life and it gives some hope to the parents. At the same time, schools also provide a place where services can be offered whether they are immunization campaigns or health checks, distribution of clothes or other supplies, education about the use of hygiene⁴, trauma⁵ counseling and so on. Being in school gets children back on track toward their own futures⁶, ensuring that the disaster does not hold back a whole generation of children.

 

Ms. Bellamy says immunization and clean water have helped prevent serious outbreaks of disease. She says UNICEF's number one concern is Aceh province in Indonesia, where 20 cases of measles⁷ have been reported.

 

Ms. Bellamy says UNICEF is working with the nations involved to register and identify children to reunite them with their families and protect them from exploitation. She says two of the three children who were recruited from displaced persons camps by Tamil Tiger rebels in Sri Lanka have been returned to their families. The third case is still being followed.

 

Ms. Bellamy visited Indonesia and Sri Lanka, the two nations most affected⁸ by the tsunami, last week.

 

Barbara Schoetzau, VOA news, New York.

 

注释：

normalcy [5nC:mElsi] n. 常态

immunization [7imju:nai5zeiFEn] n. 使免除，使免疫

counseling [5kaunsEliN] n. 咨询服务

recruit [ri5kru:t] vt. 召集

displaced person 难民

1 tsunami   

n.海啸

参考例句：

• Powerful quake sparks tsunami warning in Japan.大地震触发了日本的海啸预警。
• Coastlines all around the Indian Ocean inundated by a huge tsunami.大海啸把印度洋沿岸地区都淹没了。

2 survivors   

幸存者，残存者，生还者( survivor的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The survivors were adrift in a lifeboat for six days. 幸存者在救生艇上漂流了六天。
• survivors clinging to a raft 紧紧抓住救生筏的幸存者

3 constructive   

adj.建设的，建设性的

参考例句：

• We welcome constructive criticism.我们乐意接受有建设性的批评。
• He is beginning to deal with his anger in a constructive way.他开始用建设性的方法处理自己的怒气。

4 hygiene   

n.健康法，卫生学 （a.hygienic）

参考例句：

• Their course of study includes elementary hygiene and medical theory.他们的课程包括基础卫生学和医疗知识。
• He's going to give us a lecture on public hygiene.他要给我们作关于公共卫生方面的报告。

5 trauma   

n.外伤，精神创伤

参考例句：

• Counselling is helping him work through this trauma.心理辅导正帮助他面对痛苦。
• The phobia may have its root in a childhood trauma.恐惧症可能源于童年时期的创伤。

6 futures   

n.期货，期货交易

参考例句：

• He continued his operations in cotton futures.他继续进行棉花期货交易。
• Cotton futures are selling at high prices.棉花期货交易的卖价是很高的。

7 measles   

n.麻疹，风疹，包虫病，痧子

参考例句：

• The doctor is quite definite about Tom having measles.医生十分肯定汤姆得了麻疹。
• The doctor told her to watch out for symptoms of measles.医生叫她注意麻疹出现的症状。

8 affected   

adj.不自然的，假装的

参考例句：

• She showed an affected interest in our subject.她假装对我们的课题感到兴趣。
• His manners are affected.他的态度不自然。