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菲律宾志愿者参与救灾行动

Much of the attention on the response to Typhoon Haiyan, which has destroyed many communities in the Philippines, is on the large-scale efforts by governments, foreign militaries and announcements from major humanitarian¹ groups. While the survivors² await the trickle³ of actual relief to expand, their fellow citizens in unscathed and more prosperous cities are trying to help.

台风海燕摧毁了菲律宾许多社区之后，人们对救灾的关注主要集中在各国政府、军队的大规模行动和主要人道主义组织上。在灾民苦苦期待实际救援物资从少到多，最终满足需求之际，他们那些住在免遭台风侵袭和相对繁荣城市里的同胞们也正努力提供帮助。

A gymnasium of a government department has been transformed into the operations center for a grassroots relief effort named Operation Walangiwanan - meaning “no one gets left behind.”

政府部门的这个体育馆现在成了一个民间救援机构“不让任何一个灾民无助”的行动中心。

Across the central Philippines, hundreds of thousands of hungry and homeless are worrying that is precisely⁵ what has happened to them.

而在菲律宾中部地区，数十万饥饿而无家可归的灾民担心，等待他们的恰恰就是这种无助状态。

With anger rising in many of the worst-afflicted communities over the lack of relief, these volunteers are readying supplies - even though no one is sure when they will reach those in need.

缺少救援使许多重灾区的人们越来越愤怒。在体育馆里，志愿者们正紧张地准备各种物资，但没人知道这些东西什么时候能够到达灾民手里。

As music plays an MC shouts encouragement to volunteers bagging cans of sardines⁶, boxes of cookies, crackers⁷, sausages, and juices, bottles of water and soy sauce, rations⁴ of rice and even clothing and sandals.

在音乐声中，一位主持人不断为志愿者们加油打气，他们把沙丁鱼罐头、点心、饼干、香肠、果汁、瓶装水和调味料、大米，甚至衣服和拖鞋分装在袋子里。

A youth group area coordinator⁸, Joseph Nolasco, explains volunteers were quickly mobilized by social media. “Most of them are college students, call center agents, YP’s - young professionals - mothers, even out-of-school youth,” he said.

诺拉斯科是一个青年组织的地区协调人。他说，志愿者是通过社交媒体很快集结在一起的：“他们大部分是大学生，呼叫中心职员，年轻的专业人员，母亲，甚至还有辍学青年。”

Volunteers have quickly filled a gymnasium with thousands of bags of desperately⁹ needed supplies that will probably be able to sustain typhoon survivors for only a couple of days. So the real demand is going to be for this sort of effort to continue for weeks, if not months.

志愿者们装好的数千袋紧急救灾物资很快摆满了体育馆，但这些东西也只能满足台风幸存者一两天的需求。为了使灾民真正脱困，这类努力即使不至于持续几个月，起码也需要持续几个星期。