VOA慢速英语:国际红十字委员会向中非共和国人民提供农业援助

ICRC in CAR Gives Agricultural Assistance to People in Need

国际红十字委员会向中非共和国人民提供农业援助

From VOA Learning English, this is the Agriculture Report.

这里是美国之音慢速英语农业报道。

The International Committee of the Red Cross is giving seeds and farm equipment to people in the Central African Republic (C.A.R.). The ICRC says families who fled rebel clashes in the area need the aid. Without the aid they may not survive. Other families have returned to their homes, but the clashes have destroyed their farms and grain storage buildings.

国际红十字委员会正在给予中非共和国人民种子和农具。国际红十字委员会称，从该地区叛军冲突中逃出的家庭需要援助，没有援助，他们可能就无法生存下来。有些家庭已经重返故乡，但是冲突毁坏了他们的农田和粮仓。

The clashes began in March 2013, when the mostly Muslim Seleka rebel group overthrew the president. The mostly Christian anti-Balaka group then attacked the Seleka group. Since then, the ongoing clashes have displaced more than one million people in the country. Tens of thousands of others have fled the area.

此次冲突起始于2013年3月，当时以穆斯林为主的塞雷克叛军组织推翻了总统的统治。然后以基督徒为主的反巴拉卡组织开始攻击塞雷克组织。从那时以来，这持续不断的冲突使得该国100多万的人民流离失所，而且还有成千上万的人逃离了此地。

The ICRC aid program targets more than 30 villages in the western part of country. It will give supplies to more than 13,000 people.

国际红十字委员会的援助计划的援助范围是该国西部的30多个村庄，将会为13000多人提供援助。

Jean-Francois Sangsue leads the ICRC office in the C.A.R. He says the ICRC is working with the Central African Red Cross to give agricultural aid to people who have been victims of attacks by armed groups since the end of last year. He says their fields were burned, and the rebels took everything from their homes, so the ICRC decided to help them plant new crops.

让·弗朗索瓦·桑苏是中非共和国国际红十字委员会的负责人，他称，国际红十字委员会一直和中非红十字协会合作，来共同向那些自从去年年底就一直受武装组织攻击的受害者们提供农业援助。他称，这些受害者的田地被烧毁，而且叛军掏空了他们家所有东西，因此国际红十字委员会决定帮助他们种植新的农作物。

The ICRC says each family will get bags of bean, sesame and corn seeds, as well as farm tools. More than 2.5 million residents already need immediate humanitarian aid. The clashes caused poor harvests in 2013 and the country has little food.

国际红十字委员会称，每一个家庭将会得到几袋豆子，芝麻和玉米种子，还有一些农具。大约有250多万居民立即需要人道主义援助。此次冲突使得2013年的粮食歉收，导致该国严重缺粮。

The Food and Agricultural Organization reports about 95 percent of the country's communities say they will not have enough seeds for this year's planting season. Mr Sangsue says the low seeds supply could increase the number of people facing hunger.

联合国粮农组织称，该国95%的乡镇称他们今年的种植期缺乏足够的种子来进行种植。桑苏先生表示，种子的供应不足会增加饥饿人口数量。

He says people must be helped to return to their homes and begin growing crops. He says he hopes that in four or five months, people will be able to harvest their crops.

他称，必须要帮助这些受害者重返家园，并帮助他们种植农作物，希望在四到五个月以后，人们可以收获他们的粮食。

Mr Sangsue says as families wait for the crops to grow, the ICRC will work with its partners to give food aid. The organizations will help both those who have returned to their homes and those who remain in the country but can't go back to their farms.

桑苏先生还称，在各个家庭等待农作物生长的这段时间，国际红十字委员会会和其他合作伙伴一起为这些人提供粮食援助。该组织将会帮助那些重返家园的人们和那些仍留在此国无法重返自己农场的人们。

And that's the Agriculture Report from VOA Learning English. I'm Christopher Cruise.

这就是今天的美国之音慢速英语农业报道的全部内容，我是克里斯多夫·克鲁斯。