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AS IT IS - A tent camp in Berlin

Hello, again, and welcome. I’m Jim Tedder1 in Washington. 

Today, we we’re off to Berlin to visit a tent camp for people hoping to immigrate2 from Africa and the Middle East. And we’ll hear about medical care in Ethiopia at a special new hospital. But first we travel to Burma. 

At one time, Burma had what some educators considered the best universities in East Asia. But years of government control and poor leadership damaged the country’s education system. As a result, many students left Burma to study overseas.  Since she entered parliament, opposition3 leader Aung San Suu Kyi has supported efforts to improve Burma’s schools. And now, policymakers are changing their ideas about education. 

Some Burmese students recently visited an American college fair in Rangoon. They would like to attend college in the United States. Recent political reforms in Burma have resulted in the end of sanctions against the country. Lifting the measures has made events like this college fair possible. 

The Burmese government seized control of the universities in 1964. The government also barred the teaching of subjects such as history and political science. Since reform, however, there has been an attempt to offer classes on sensitive issues like the history of ethnic4 conflict in Burma. May Nyein Chan is taking this history class at the embassy-operated American Center. 

“Before, I don’t think I can have that, it would be something illegal.” 

Universities were at the center of student unrest that took place over the past 50 years. The government closed the universities to keep students away from places where they could cause trouble. Thein Lwin formerly5 studied at Rangoon University. He has set up a committee to advise Parliament on ways to improve education policy. He says the government needs to change its thinking about schools and education. 

“Students should be allowed to form freely student union. The student representative should participate in the university governing body. The university should be a place for criticizing the country.” 

But he says he knows it will take a long time to overcome the damage done by past governments. For now, students who hope to be able to continue their education still want to leave the country. 

Immigrants from Africa and the Middle East often face long waits before they get official approval to work and settle in countries where they have moved. In Germany, Austria, and other places, some immigrants left their detention6 centers and built tent camps to publicize their cause. 

One such camp stayed open this winter in Berlin. As we hear from Onka Dekker, local people and others are supporting this unusual community. 

In October, immigrants from across Germany marched to the Kreuzberg neighborhood in Berlin. They were protesting government delays in answering their requests for asylum7

The immigrants themselves operate the tent camp with the support of local people and volunteers like Coco, an American in her 20s. She described services provided by the volunteers. 

“A lot of the refugees who are staying here in the camp come and ask if we can help them find a place to sleep, or a place to shower, or someone to wash their clothes.”  

The camp is large. Several tents have metal chimneys with smoke rising from cooking stoves. 

Paula Riester is a Green Party councilwoman in Berlin. Her party and its supporters agreed to let the shelters stay right where they are. They are helping8 to raise money to keep the camp operating. 

She says the migrants’ only hope for change is if a new government is elected later this year. But unless the law is changed, the migrants have little hope. 

Those whose requests for asylum were accepted by German officials are thought to be the lucky ones. But others who arrived in Germany from third countries face expulsion to that country if they ask the German government for refuge. That is because of a European Union law called Dublin two. Observers say the law is not likely to be changed. 

A group of 150 Ethiopian doctors living overseas is building a hospital in Ethiopia. The hospital is meant to reduce the number of Ethiopians going to other countries for medical treatment. Steve Ember has the story. 

The Ethio-American Doctors Group plans to build a hospital, a medical school, and a medical research center in Ethiopia. Yonas Legessa Cherinet belongs to the group. He says the new hospital will provide 27 medical specialties9 not currently offered in Ethiopia. 

“There are varieties of fields where service is very limited here. I could mention vascular10 surgery, urology, pulmonology, neurosurgery and reproductive endocrinology…” 

The Doctors Group hopes that fewer Ethiopians will go overseas for medical help if they can be treated inside the country. Many Ethiopians will not have enough money to pay for the treatments offered at the new center. Dr. Yonas says money will be raised for needy11 patients. 

Currently, many Ethiopians who can pay for treatment go to Asia, the Middle East and South Africa. Zelelam Abebe works in a private clinic in Ethiopia’s capital. He says there is a big need for first-class medical services in the country. He has sent several patients abroad. 

“I had to refer several people to hospitals abroad for different cardiac surgeries, brain surgery, and advanced cancer cases.” 

Dr. Yonas says that caring for Ethiopians who might go abroad means the new hospital will have to be different and better than other hospitals in Ethiopia. He says patients say they go abroad for better quality care and better respect. 

Tariku Assefa works at the Black Lion Hospital, the largest hospital in Ethiopia. Dr. Tariku welcomes the idea of a new hospital. But he says he hopes the new research center will place its greatest efforts on diseases that often strike Ethiopians. 

The new hospital is set to open by 2016 and employ up to 400 people. Fifty of those people will be doctors. Some doctors will return to Ethiopia to work. Others plan to spend several weeks each year at the hospital. I’m Steve Ember.


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1 tedder 2833afc4f8252d8dc9f8cd73b24db55d     
n.(干草)翻晒者,翻晒机
参考例句:
  • Jim Tedder has more. 吉姆?特德将给我们做更多的介绍。 来自互联网
  • Jim Tedder tells us more. 吉姆?泰德给我们带来更详细的报道。 来自互联网
2 immigrate haAxe     
v.(从外国)移来,移居入境
参考例句:
  • 10,000 people are expected to immigrate in the next two years.接下来的两年里预计有10,000人会移民至此。
  • Only few plants can immigrate to the island.只有很少的植物能够移植到这座岛上。
3 opposition eIUxU     
n.反对,敌对
参考例句:
  • The party leader is facing opposition in his own backyard.该党领袖在自己的党內遇到了反对。
  • The police tried to break down the prisoner's opposition.警察设法制住了那个囚犯的反抗。
4 ethnic jiAz3     
adj.人种的,种族的,异教徒的
参考例句:
  • This music would sound more ethnic if you played it in steel drums.如果你用钢鼓演奏,这首乐曲将更具民族特色。
  • The plan is likely only to aggravate ethnic frictions.这一方案很有可能只会加剧种族冲突。
5 formerly ni3x9     
adv.从前,以前
参考例句:
  • We now enjoy these comforts of which formerly we had only heard.我们现在享受到了过去只是听说过的那些舒适条件。
  • This boat was formerly used on the rivers of China.这船从前航行在中国内河里。
6 detention 1vhxk     
n.滞留,停留;拘留,扣留;(教育)留下
参考例句:
  • He was kept in detention by the police.他被警察扣留了。
  • He was in detention in connection with the bribery affair.他因与贿赂事件有牵连而被拘留了。
7 asylum DobyD     
n.避难所,庇护所,避难
参考例句:
  • The people ask for political asylum.人们请求政治避难。
  • Having sought asylum in the West for many years,they were eventually granted it.他们最终获得了在西方寻求多年的避难权。
8 helping 2rGzDc     
n.食物的一份&adj.帮助人的,辅助的
参考例句:
  • The poor children regularly pony up for a second helping of my hamburger. 那些可怜的孩子们总是要求我把我的汉堡包再给他们一份。
  • By doing this, they may at times be helping to restore competition. 这样一来, 他在某些时候,有助于竞争的加强。
9 specialties 4f19670e38d5e63c785879e223b3bde0     
n.专门,特性,特别;专业( specialty的名词复数 );特性;特制品;盖印的契约
参考例句:
  • Great Books are popular, not pedantic. They are not written by specialists about specialties for specialists. 名著绝不引经据典,艰深难懂,而是通俗易读。它们不是专家为专业人员撰写的专业书籍。 来自英汉 - 翻译样例 - 文学
  • Brain drains may represent a substantial reduction in some labor force skills and specialties. 智力外流可能表示某种劳动力技能和特长大量减少。 来自辞典例句
10 vascular cidw6     
adj.血管的,脉管的
参考例句:
  • The mechanism of this anomalous vascular response is unknown.此种不规则的血管反应的机制尚不清楚。
  • The vascular changes interfere with diffusion of nutrients from plasma into adjacent perivascular tissue and cells.这些血管变化干扰了营养物质从血浆中向血管周围邻接的组织和细胞扩散。
11 needy wG7xh     
adj.贫穷的,贫困的,生活艰苦的
参考例句:
  • Although he was poor,he was quite generous to his needy friends.他虽穷,但对贫苦的朋友很慷慨。
  • They awarded scholarships to needy students.他们给贫苦学生颁发奖学金。

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