援助组织帮助尼日利亚人从博科圣地冲突中恢复过来

Aid Groups Help Nigerians Recover From Boko Haram Conflict 援助组织帮助尼日利亚人从博科圣地冲突中恢复过来

Nigerians, suffering from six years of conflict between Boko Haram Islamist militants¹ and Nigerian troops, are getting relief from international aid groups.

Two aid projects in northern Nigeria are benefiting children who were displaced from their schools and women who have been widowed by the fighting.

One project operates about 300 informal learning centers in northern Nigeria's Bauchi, Gombe and Adamawa states, so that students driven from their schools by Boko Haram militants can still get an education.

Washington-based nongovernmental organization Creative Associates International runs the learning centers with funding from the U.S. government's Agency for International Development, or USAID.

Partnering with locals

The program relies on support from Nigerian community leaders who provide safe spaces for the traumatized children, according to the group's director of education in conflict zones, Eileen St. George.

"We can come in with great ideas and help mobilize a community to realize their own need and how to respond to it, and provide them some of the technical capacity to build the knowledge and the skill sets to implement² the program," St. George told HashtagVOA this week. "We're working side by side with the communities, local governments and states to make this happen. They are the ones bringing in these kids."

The U.S. NGO says more than 1 million Nigerian children have been displaced by Boko Haram's six-year insurgency³.

The group's education crisis response program, which marked its first anniversary this month, is designed to give those children not just learning opportunities, but also psychosocial support and in-class meals.

St. George said her group has enrolled⁴ 20,000 displaced children so far and hopes to reach 59,000 by the end of the three-year project.

"I would say we are touching⁵ just a drop in the bucket," she said. "There are so many more children and youth out there. When you help stabilize⁶ the children and the youth, you are stabilizing⁷ an entire family and the community around them."

In another program, thousands of widows who have lost husbands in the insurgency have registered with the International Committee of the Red Cross.

Promoting entrepreneurship

The Red Cross is working with the widows association of northeastern Nigeria's Borno state to help the bereaved⁸ women start small businesses with $200 grants.

Amina Lawan used the money to buy three sewing machines and open her own tailor shop. Her husband was killed three years ago.

"When I became a widow, sometimes it was difficult for me to eat three times a day because there was no money," Lawan said. "There were school fees for the children. Everything was so hard."

Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari, who took office in late May, has ordered his military chiefs to quash the Boko Haram uprising by the end of this year.  Defense officials have said they are on course to meet that deadline.

Human rights organizations often have accused the Nigerian army of violating human rights in the fight against Boko Haram. The army denies that accusation⁹.

1 militants   

激进分子，好斗分子( militant的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The militants have been sporadically fighting the government for years. 几年来，反叛分子一直对政府实施零星的战斗。
• Despite the onslaught, Palestinian militants managed to fire off rockets. 尽管如此，巴勒斯坦的激进分子仍然发射导弹。

2 implement   

n.(pl.)工具，器具；vt.实行，实施，执行

参考例句：

• Don't undertake a project unless you can implement it.不要承担一项计划，除非你能完成这项计划。
• The best implement for digging a garden is a spade.在花园里挖土的最好工具是铁锹。

3 insurgency   

n.起义；暴动；叛变

参考例句：

• And as in China, unrest and even insurgency are widespread. 而在中国，动乱甚至暴乱都普遍存在。 来自互联网
• Dr Zyphur is part an insurgency against this idea. 塞弗博士是这一观点逆流的一部分。 来自互联网

4 enrolled   

adj.入学登记了的v.[亦作enrol]( enroll的过去式和过去分词 )；登记，招收，使入伍（或入会、入学等），参加，成为成员；记入名册；卷起，包起

参考例句：

• They have been studying hard from the moment they enrolled. 从入学时起，他们就一直努力学习。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• He enrolled with an employment agency for a teaching position. 他在职业介绍所登了记以谋求一个教师的职位。 来自《简明英汉词典》

5 touching   

adj.动人的，使人感伤的

参考例句：

• It was a touching sight.这是一幅动人的景象。
• His letter was touching.他的信很感人。

6 stabilize   

vt.（使）稳定，使稳固，使稳定平衡；vi.稳定

参考例句：

• They are eager to stabilize currencies.他们急于稳定货币。
• His blood pressure tended to stabilize.他的血压趋向稳定。

7 stabilizing   

n.稳定化处理[退火]v.（使）稳定， （使）稳固( stabilize的现在分词 )

参考例句：

• The disulfide bridges might then be viewed primarily as stabilizing components. 二硫桥可以被看作是初级的稳定因素。 来自辞典例句
• These stabilizing design changes are usually not desirable for steady-state operation. 这些增加稳定性的设计改变通常不太符合稳态工作的要求。 来自辞典例句

8 bereaved   

adj.刚刚丧失亲人的v.使失去（希望、生命等）( bereave的过去式和过去分词)；（尤指死亡）使丧失（亲人、朋友等）；使孤寂；抢走（财物）

参考例句：

• The ceremony was an ordeal for those who had been recently bereaved. 这个仪式对于那些新近丧失亲友的人来说是一种折磨。
• an organization offering counselling for the bereaved 为死者亲友提供辅导的组织

9 accusation   

n.控告，指责，谴责

参考例句：

• I was furious at his making such an accusation.我对他的这种责备非常气愤。
• She knew that no one would believe her accusation.她知道没人会相信她的指控。