环球英语 — 395：Water for Sudan
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Thank you for joining us for today’s Spotlight program. I’m Liz Waid.
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And I’m Ruby Jones. Spotlight uses a special English method of broadcasting. It is easier for people to understand, no matter where in the world they live.
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It is not easy for people in Southern Sudan to find good water. It is most difficult for people in far country villages. Many of these people walk for hours to find any water at all. Often, the water they do collect is dirty. It contains bacteria and diseases. These diseases make people very sick. Some people even die from the diseases they get from drinking dirty water.
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Sometimes a whole village keeps moving until the people can find water. So, many of the country villages have not established schools or businesses. However, this is no longer the case in the village of Aliek.
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“Water for Sudan” is an aid organisation. In 2006, workers from this organization came to Aliek to dig a well. Aliek already had a small school. The community leaders asked the workers to dig the well near the school. They asked for this because they believe the children are important to the future of the village. But this well serves the whole community of Aliek, over six thousand [6,000] people.
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Two years after the village received the well, Aliek has a large school. Before, only sixty [60] of the children in Aliek were able to attend school. Most children spent all of their time finding water for their families. Now that there is a well in the village, nearly six hundred [600] children attend school.
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The head school teacher in Aliek says the school is successful because now the village has a well. He says,
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“The water is clean. It protects the children from sickness. When they are healthy, they are good students.”
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Today’s Spotlight is on Water for Sudan and the man who began it, Mister Salva Dut.
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Salva Dut is a “lost boy.” In the 1980’s, the civil war in Sudan caused him to flee from his home. He was only eleven [11] years old. For five years, Salva lived and travelled with many other lost children. First they went to Ethiopia. Then they moved to a refugee camp in southwest Kenya. Salva stayed at this camp for about six years. At that time, three thousand eight hundred [3,800] of the boys went to live in the United States. Salva was one of those boys.
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In the United States, Salva went to college. And he began working for St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in New York. However, Salva still did not know if his family was alive. His home village in Sudan did not have telephones or mail. So, there was no way to find out. But Salva continued to try. Later, he said:
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“I did try. The Red Cross said that if my parents were not in the refugee camps, it would not be possible to find them.”
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Four years after arriving in the United States, Salva received a message from his cousin. The message said: “I found your father.” Salva’s father had arrived at a United Nations hospital in Southern Sudan. He was very sick. His body contained organisms called Guinea Worms, and other parasites. You may have heard another Spotlight program about this sickness called “Stopping Guinea Worm Disease.” In this disease, the guinea worms live in a person’s body. When these parasites try to get out of the body, they cause much pain. Salva’s father got the Guinea worms from drinking infected water.
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Salva knew this could be his last chance to see his father. He made the trip back to Sudan. His church helped to pay the cost of his travel. Salva’s father had treatment to remove the parasites from his body. He survived! But he could not return to his village. The water there was infected. Salva says,
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“The doctor told him that he needed to start drinking clean water. If he did not, he could get sick again. He could get diseases from the water again. And he could die.”
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When Salva was in Sudan, he also got sick from drinking infected water. His trip showed him the truth about every day life for the people in Sudan. Salva knew he had to do something. He wanted to use the education he received in the United States to ease the suffering of his people in Sudan.
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“When I went back to the United States, I said I should do something to help my father and all the people who are in the same situation. That’s why I formed this not-for-profit organization. I called it ‘Water for Sudan’.”
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Salva knew exactly what to do. He would bring clean water to his father’s village and other villages like it. Salva got help from some people in his church. Then he began his organization. Water for Sudan builds wells in local villages. These wells bring life to the community.
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Water for Sudan uses the whole community to build a well. Everyone in the village moves rocks and grass away from the ground where the workers will dig the well. Then Salva and his crew bring in a drilling machine. This machine digs a hole by turning in circles as it enters the ground. They drill deep. They are looking for water contained in rocks deep in the ground. When these rocks break, clean water is released.
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Once they find water, Salva and his crew place pipes into the ground to direct the water. Then they put a hand pump on top. This lets the people in the village control the flow of the clean water. Finally, people from the village are trained to operate the well and keep it in good working condition.
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In 2005, Water for Sudan built its first well in the village of Salva’s father. Good things happened after the village received a well. Now his father’s village has a market for trading goods. And another aid organization from Germany opened a medical center.
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Water for Sudan continues to dig wells in more villages. In 2007, Salva and his crew drilled ten new wells. For the next several years, they hope to drill twenty-four [24] new wells every season. Salva believes that bringing water to the villages of Sudan is just the beginning. He says,
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“The people in Southern Sudan are catching up with the world. They need someone to open the door for them. But that is the only thing they need. From there, they will do the rest.”
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