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本帖{zh1}由 lilywizardry 于 2010-2-20 08:24 编辑
Haiti a month on
一个月后的海地
Tarpaulin cities
防水帐篷之城
shelter is now the pressing need
当下急需避难所
Feb 18th 2010 | PORT-AU-PRINCE | From The Economist print edition
A MONTH after the catastrophic earthquake that flattened much of Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince, and according to the government killed perhaps 230,000 people, there has been some fragile progress. Hospitals are working, though not before thousands of survivors died of their injuries. The World Food Programme says that it has handed out a two-week supply of rice to 2.5m people in the capital and nearby areas. Most streets in Port-au-Prince have been cleared of rubble.
灾难性的地震将海地首都太子港的大部分建筑夷为平地，而政府公布的死亡人数达到23万人之多，这之后一个月来，情况有了一些微弱的进展。尽管之前数千人因为伤口得不到救治而死亡，现在医院已经开始运转。世界粮食组织宣布他们已经向海地首都及其周边的250万人发放了可维持2周的大米供应。太子港大部分街道上的瓦砾已经被清理。
The immediate worry now is providing shelter robust enough to withstand the rains (and landslides) that normally begin in earnest in May, and the hurricanes that may follow from June onwards. Around 550,000 people have gathered in 337 makeshift camps; almost as many are sleeping rough. With aftershocks continuing, they are too scared to venture back into their houses even when these survived. Some have been issued with tents. But relief workers reckon that simple plastic tarpaulins, suspended on poles, are a more durable option. One says that some tarpaulins handed out after floods in 2004 are still doing duty. The plastic can later be incorporated into huts.
当下最紧急的应该是向海地提供足够的防水帐篷来抵御通常在5月前来临的雨季的大雨（还有滑坡），而台风的袭击也会在6月接踵而来。大约55万人击中在337个简陋的营地中；几乎只够他们容身的地方。在余震的持续袭击下，他们吓得不敢冒险回到自己那些没有在地震中倒塌的房屋中。有些人拿到了援助的帐篷，但是援助人员认为简单的塑料防水帐篷，可以从中间支起的，才是更合适的选择。有些人说在2004年洪水灾害中发放的一些防水布帐篷现在仍在使用。这些塑料的可以随后组合成帐篷。
At a school in Bolosse, a district of Port-au-Prince, on a recent day a queue of people each emerged carrying a plastic sheet, a box of soap and other toiletries, a folded water container and, on their head, a pack of 24 one-litre bottles of water. Jean Bilda Robert, a local pastor who helped to organise this event, said it had taken weeks to prepare. The United Nations is trying to distribute tarpaulins to up to 1,500 families each day. Only occasionally are the handouts accompanied by disorder. Aid workers say that they are on target to ensure that each family has two tarpaulins by May 1st.
在太子港Bolosse街区的一所学校里，近来出现了一群人，他们每人拿着塑料板，一盒肥皂和其他的洗漱用品，一个折叠式的蓄水器，而他们的头上都顶着一件24瓶升装水。当地的牧师Jean Bilda Robert组织了此项活动，据他说这花费了数周的时间。美国正尽力每天向至多1500个当地家庭发放防水布帐篷。这些发放品一般都不会弄错。救援人员说他们现在全力保证每个家庭在5月1号之前都会有2顶防水布帐篷。
The camps are crowded, so many families cannot claim the 12 square metres that aid workers deem necessary. Tens of thousands of people are squatting on steep slopes or river beds, from which they should be moved. Haiti’s government is due to issue a map of suitable alternative sites. Some aid workers say that families should be encouraged to return to where their houses once stood.
难民营非常拥挤，因此很多家庭分不到救援人员认为必须的12平方空间。数千人都寄居在半山坡或者河床上，他们必须离开这些地方。海地政府应该发行一份标明何处适于的地图。有些救援工作者说这些家庭需要被鼓励回到他们曾经居住的地方去。
Unless steps are quickly taken to plan and design more resilient housing, Haitians risk disaster again. The 1989 earthquake near San Francisco in California was of similar magnitude to Haiti’s but killed just 63 people, mainly because most buildings there are designed to withstand the shock. There are plenty of ideas for cheap earthquake-proofing: one is to fit rubber pads from recycled tyres between concrete blocks as shock-absorbers, says a report in Science magazine. But the government has never enforced building codes, and can hardly do so now.
除非加快计划设计更多的弹性住房，海地人有再遭受灾难的危险。1989年在加利福尼亚州的圣弗朗西斯科附近发生的地震和海地的地震震级相当，但仅仅导致63人的死亡，主要就是因为绝大多数的建筑物都有抗震设计。有很多廉价的防震设计可以利用，比如科学杂志的一篇报告中提到在混凝土块结构中加入复合海绵来作为晃动的缓冲吸收物。但是政府之前从来没有强制性的建筑标准，而现在也很难这么去做。
Rebuilding Haiti’s homes, schools, roads and other infrastructure will take between $8 billion and $14 billion, according to an estimate by economists at the Inter-American Development Bank. A long round of donor conferences lies ahead.
由泛美开发银行的经济学家们估计，重建海地的住房，学校，道路和其他的基础设置大概需要花费80到140亿美元。一长串慈善捐赠会迫近眼前。 |
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