遗憾的是,现在的儿童事业仍需要很大的支持,这些孩子饱受营养不良、疾病和死亡的威胁。你不需要知道确切数字,你只要看着这些瘦小的脸和木然呆滞的眼睛,因为这些都是严重营养不良的表现。导致这种病最重要的原因就是缺乏维生素A,这将引起角膜损伤甚至于眼睛部分或完全失明,几周之后可能就会死去。在诸如印度尼西亚、孟加拉国、印度、菲律宾和埃塞俄比亚等国家,每年出现的此类病例多达50万例。如今,有成百万的儿童正在受到失明的威胁。这也是在事情发展到无可挽回之前,我和其他许多联合国儿童基金组织的志愿者奔赴世界各国努力筹集资金的原因。与此同时,我们也要唤醒人们与另一种形式的黑暗作斗争的意识——人们因为缺乏信息,所以不知道向这些孩子伸出援助之手是多么的轻松简单。
I have known UNICEF a long time. For almost 45 years ago, I was one of the tens of thousands of starving children in war-ravaged Europe to receive aid from UNICEF immediately after our liberation that freed us from hunger, repression and constant violence, when we were reduced to near total poverty as is the developing world today. For it is poverty that is at the root of all their suffering—the not having- not having the means to help themselves. That is what UNICEF is all about, helping people to help themselves. Giving them the aid to develop. Thereby allowing them to become self-reliant and live in dignity.
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