CNN News: 海地英雄——努力把这里变成希望的绿洲

10 Second Trivia.Which country occupies the western third of Hispaniola? Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica, or Aruba. On the Caribbean Island of Hispaniola it’s Haiti that’s on the west.

10秒快速问答。哪个国家占据了伊斯帕尼奥拉岛西部三分之一?多米尼加共和国、海地、牙买加或阿鲁巴。在加勒比海的伊斯帕尼奥拉岛上，西面是海地。

Political instability and natural disasters like a catastrophic earthquake that struck Haiti in 2010 have had a lasting toll on the country. But even amid violent protests and extraordinary poverty, a CNN Hero is working to transform a dangerous neighborhood into an oasis.

政治动荡和2010年袭击海地的灾难性地震等自然灾害使该国造成了持久的损失。但即使在暴力抗议和极度贫困的情况下，CNN的一位英雄仍在努力把一个危险的社区变成绿洲。

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Inside of this garden, it’s joy, happiness and peace but behind this wall it’s a different story.

未知男性：在这座花园里，是欢乐、幸福与和平，但在这堵墙后面，却是另一番景象。

We’ve been trying to get a cool down in Haiti for months but it’s always something. Unrest against hunger, against the waste, the cost of (inaudible) in the country.

几个月来，我们一直在努力希望海地平静下来，但总是时有事情发生。反对饥饿，反对浪费，反对国家(听不清)的成本。

(inaudible) more fighting against each other. Barricading, blocking the streets with fires and fire. It’s hard for the children to go to school.

更多的是互相争斗。用火堵住街道。孩子们上学很难。

We can’t let the children of Haiti lose the only thing that they have left which is their hope. Twelve years ago in Seta Soleil, I started a community center for peaceful alternatives where kids have a safe space to be children. You see an alternative path so all the suffering that this community is (inaudible).

我们不能让海地儿童失去他们唯一剩下的东西，那就是他们的希望。12年前，我在Seta Soleil建立了一个和平的社区中心，让孩子们有一个安全的成长空间。你看到了另一条路，所以，这个社区隔离了外界的遭遇。

When we started there was a big landfill next to the little soccer field. We give the kids with their parents to come and help turning it into a garden where the children would feel, that’s beautiful contrary like to the streets.

当开始时，小足球场旁边有一个很大的垃圾填埋场。我们让孩子们和他们的父母们来帮忙把它变成一个花园，在那里孩子们会感到，与街道相反，这是美丽的。

We collect tires that burn in the streets for a purpose and we use them as planters. People eat from what they actually grow. We open our community library to all the schools. We have an anger management program where we try to (inaudible) support to help kids manage their anger. The whole program is all about youth development.

我们收集在街道上燃烧的轮胎，并把它们用作花盆。人们吃自己实际种植的东西。我们向所有的学校开放社区图书馆。我们有一个愤怒管理项目试图(听不清)支持帮助孩子控制自己的愤怒。整个项目都是关于青年发展的。

Many people in Haiti refer to Seta Soleil as the trash place where all the dumps are but I see angels where people see this. I see these kids with potential with their wings hiding in the back waiting like to fly. I started this to provide a voice to the voiceless. The new Haiti will start in Seta Soleil and we can’t wait to see this happen.

在海地，很多人把Seta Soleil称为垃圾堆放场，但我看到天使们看到了这一点。我看到这些有潜力的孩子，他们的翅膀藏在身后等待飞翔。我这样做是为了给那些没有声音的人一个声音。新海地将从Seta Soleil开始，我们迫不及待地想看到这一切发生。