VOA慢速英语:阿富汗返乡客生活面临困境

Many of the tens of thousands of people returning to Afghanistan from Pakistan have no jobs, no support and no home. International aid agencies say they and the government are unable to help many of them.

从巴基斯坦返回阿富汗的数万人中大多数都没有工作，没有援助，没有家。国际救援机构称他们和政府都无力帮助大多数人。

Hadeesa is one of those who has returned, along with her family. She is 14 years old, but she appears older. She cares for her mother, who is ill, and for her younger brother. He is abused at the place where he works. Her father and other family members together earn less than $40 a month. They must pay half of that to the owner of the house in which they live.

Hadeesa是那些与亲人一块回家的人之一。她现在仅有14岁但看起来还要大一些。她非常关心她生病的母亲还要她的小弟弟。他弟弟在他工作的地方遭到虐待。他的爸爸和其他家庭成员每个月收入所得不到40美元。他们还要拿出一半的钱来交房租。

"We only eat bread with tea, and pay rent. We cannot afford anything else."

我们只能吃面包喝茶，还得交房租。其他的任何东西都买不起。

Hadeesa is one of more than 70,000 refugees who have returned to Afghanistan this year from Pakistan. Her mother says she does not know how they will survive.

Hadeesa是今年从巴基斯坦返回阿富汗的70000多名难民中的一个。她的母亲说她不知道她们要怎样生存下去。

"Because of migration, our life has gone from bad to worse. In Pakistan, we were in trouble due to a lack of legal documents. Here, we have no money."

因为移民，我们的生活每况愈下。在巴基斯坦，我们因为缺少法律文件陷入困境，而在这里，我们没有钱生活。

Pakistan began taking action against undocumented Afghan refugees after an attack on a school in which 150 people were killed, most of them children.

巴基斯坦一所学校曾遭遇袭击造成150人死亡，其中大多数为儿童。在那之后巴基斯坦开始对没有法律文件的阿富汗难民采取了措施。

Mathew Graydon works at the International Organization of Migration (IOM.) He says aid agencies and the Afghan government were not prepared for the large increase in the number of people returning to the country.

Mathew Graydon为国际移民组织工作。他说救援机构和阿富汗政府没有准备好应对如此多移民返乡援助工作。

"So this has caused a major strain on the resources of the government and IOM to provide assistance to these people."

所以这给阿富汗政府和国际移民组织救助移民工作带来了非常大的压力、

Many of the families that have returned to Afghanistan had been living in Pakistan for many years. Some of the children in those families were born in Pakistan. They have never been to Afghanistan. The families return to communities where they often do not know many people. Many arrive with just the clothes they are wearing.

许多在巴基斯坦生活了很多年的家庭也不得不重新返回阿富汗。这些家庭中有的孩子出生在巴基斯坦。他们从没有来过阿富汗。这些家庭回来之后这里认识的人不多，许多人只是带着身上穿的一身衣服就回到了阿富汗。

Conflict deeply affects the areas with the most returnees, such as Kunhar and Kunduz provinces. Because of that, many refugees cannot go to their family villages. They become internally displaced.

冲突深深影响着冲突区的这些返乡客，例如Kunhar和昆都士省的人。因为战争许多难民不能回到他们自己的村庄，所以他们变得无家可归。

The lack of funding means only those most in need are given help by the government or aid agencies. The rest, like the family VOA spoke with, must find food and shelter by themselves.

资金缺乏意味着政府或者援助机构只能帮助那些最需要帮助的家庭。其他的，例如我们采访的那家，只能靠自己来找食物和避难的地方。

For the refugee family we spoke with, life in Pakistan was difficult. But it is much worse in Afghanistan. And they do not believe it will change.

对于我们采访的那户家庭来讲，在巴基斯坦的生活是艰辛的，但是在阿富汗的生活更加艰辛。他们不认为这种情况会有所改善。

I'm Christopher Jones-Cruise.

Correspondent Ayesha Tanzeem reported this story from Kabul. Christopher Jones-Cruise adapted it into VOA Learning English. Mario Ritter was the editor.

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Words in This Story

undocumented – adj. not having the official documents that are needed to enter, live in or work in a country legally

strain – n. a feeling of stress and worry that you have because you are trying to do too much or are dealing with a difficult problem