VOA双语新闻：4、美向逃离尼日利亚的乍得人提供援助（在线收听）

美向逃离尼日利亚的乍得人提供援助

Emergency aid is being sent this week to about one thousand people – mostly children – stranded in a remote area of Chad. The International Organization for Migration says the Chadians fled violence in neighboring Nigeria between government forces and the militant group Boko Haram.

本周，国际救援机构将美国捐助的紧急救援物资送往大约1000名在乍得边远地区身处困境的乍得人，其中绝大多数是儿童。国际移民组织表示，这些乍得人是为了躲避邻国尼日利亚政府军和激进组织博科圣地之间的暴力冲突而从尼日利亚逃往乍得的。

The displaced migrants are in the village of N’Gbouboua in the Lac region of western Chad, about 48 kilometers from the Nigerian border. Their presence there was first discovered late last month. A truck convoy loaded with emergency supplies is being readied thanks to a donation by the United States.

这些背井离乡的移民都在乍得西部湖区的村庄恩古布阿，那里距离尼日利亚边界大约48公里。一支装载着紧急援助物资的卡车车队已经整装待发，这些物资都是美国捐助的。

“I would like first of all to sincerely thank the U.S. embassy here in Chad that has made this timely donation to the IOM to assist this vulnerable group of migrants that are still stranded in this very, very unsafe area. The situation is very precarious,” said Dr. Qasim Sufi is the country director for the International Organization for Migration.

国际移民组织在乍得的负责人卡西姆·苏菲博士说：“我想首先要真诚感谢乍得的美国使馆向国际移民组织及时提供捐助，帮助至今仍在非常不安全地区的身处困境的移民们。那里的局势非常不稳定。”

Koranic students

The IOM is working with the Chadian government, International Committee of the Red Cross, World Food Program and UNICEF to gather the needed supplies.

国际移民组织正在和乍得政府、国际红十字会委员会，世界粮食计划署以及联合国儿童基金会一道合作，来筹集所需的物资。

“Food, temporary shelter, medication, psychosocial support and so on. But then our ultimate goal is really to assist them, the kids, to reunite with their families, biological family members, and then other people – elderly and families – also to take them to their final destination,” he said.

卡西姆·苏菲说：“需要食品，临时庇护所，医疗服务，社会心理等各方面的帮助支持。但是我们的最终目标是要帮助那些孩子们，和他们的家人及有血缘关系的家庭成员团聚，还有老年人和一些家庭，把他们送到最后的目的地。”

The stranded children are Koranic pupils called Talebs. They fled with their teachers, the Marabout, from four eastern Nigerian villages three weeks ago.

身处困境的儿童是被称为塔利布的可兰经学生。他们和他们的伊斯兰教士老师们三个星期前从四个村庄里一起逃出。

Sufi said, “They stay with them until they become big and one day they come back home. So this is sort of a traditional business that they do because even the area where they come from it is predominantly inhabited by Chadians. Some of them are as small as five years, six years (old).”

卡西姆·苏菲说：“这些伊斯兰教士和学生们一起，直到学生们长大，有一天返回自己的家。这是他们的一种传统的做法，他们在尼日利亚居住，当地居民大都是乍得人。 有些学生只有5、6岁大。”

Sufi likens their stay in Nigeria to an education scholarship program. Earlier reports said some of the villages they fled were destroyed in the fighting between Nigerian forces and Boko Haram.

苏菲把这些孩子在尼日利亚的居住经历比作一个教育奖学金项目。早先的报道说，他们所逃离的一些村庄已经在尼日利亚军队和博科圣地的战斗中被摧毁。

Family tracing

Usually, the Koranic students live in eastern Nigeria for many years. Sufi said some can’t remember who their parents are. That’s where the International Committee of the Red Cross and the Chadian Red Cross / Red Crescent Society step in with a program called family tracing.

可兰经学生通常会在尼日利亚东部居住很多年。苏菲说，一些人甚至都记不起他们的父母是谁， 所以国际红十字委员会和乍得红十字和红新月会要开展一个“家庭追踪”项目。

“This is the most complicated part of the whole operation I must say. And I have doubts that this will last only for three weeks,” he said.

他说：“我得说，这是整个行动中最复杂的部分。我怀疑能否在三个星期内完成。”

The four wheel drive truck convoy carrying emergency aid will travel hours on unmarked desert roads and make a ferry crossing to reach the migrants. Besides being remote, the area also has roaming elephants and packs of possibly rabid dogs. One child was bit, but humanitarian workers did manage to get serum to the child for treatment.

运载着紧急援助物资的四轮驱动卡车车队，将在没有标记的沙漠道路上行进好几个小时，还要上渡轮过河，才能抵达移民那里。除了路途遥远之外，那个地区还有大象和成群的疯狗出没。已经有一个孩子被咬，但是人道主义救援人员设法弄到了血清来治疗那个孩子。