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听力文本
This is the Education Report.
Sahnun Mohamud has never lived in Somalia, but the 21-year-old student has help established an organization that supports aid projects for the east-African country. Sahnun Mohamud is a co-founder and director of a group called Students for Somalia. He is following the humanitarian example of his mother.
Mr Mohamud attends William & Mary College in Williamsburg, Virginia. It is a long way from Somalia. However, that coastal nation is home to many of his relatives. His parents were born there. His mother, Filsan Darman helped start the non-profit agency Aadamiga Somalia, it provided for aid to Somalia in 1987.
Students for Somalia are helping women at the Hidaya Camp, located at the outskirts of Mogadishu, by giving them modest business loans, as long as they agree to keep their children in school. (Photo courtesy of Filsan Darman)
Filsan Darman said the agency provided food and clothing to Somali people. They had flet to the Somali capital Mogadishu to escape variance in the North.
Sahnun Mohamud phrased his mother's service, "She's been helping Somalia since before I was born."
Mr Mohamud became involved in Humanitarian projects early in life. One of his goals for starting Students for Somalia was to get more non-Somalis to take part in helping Somalia. He noted that many Somali aid organizations have only Somali members.
"So my group and my whole motto has been let's let every ethnicity and race help Somalia. I think it's a huge resource to have non-somali people helping Somalia," said Mohamud.
This year, Students for Somalia and Aadamiga are cooperating on a project to fight poverty and increase education. Mr Mohamud said the groups loan money to women who have lived a long time in refugee camps in Mogadishu. They use the money to start or support businesses like small food stores. The women must have a child in school in Somalia to receive the money.
The loans are small, from 100 dollars to 500 dollars. The woman must keep her child in school as a loan condition. She also must pay back the loan, but Mr Mohamud says the woman does not return the loan money to the lender. Instead, she gives it to her child's school. That way, he says, the school can make improvements.
"So it's really about education and keeping kids in school," said Mohamud.
Mr Mohamud says Students for Somalia centers its efforts on education. He says education provides a long lasting solution to most of the country's problems. He says young people will not have to leave school to work if their mother's businesses are successful. He also believes it will help prevent them from becoming child soldiers for armed groups.
And that's the VOA Learning English Education Report, I'm Christopher Cruise.
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词汇解释
1.humanitarian adj. 人道主义的；博爱的；基督凡人论的 n. 人道主义者；慈善家；博爱主义者；基督凡人论者
The British government has now suspended humanitarian aid to the area.
英国政府现已暂停对这一地区的人道主义援助。
2.motto n. 座右铭，格言；箴言
Serving the people is my motto.
为人民服务是我的格言。
3.ethnicity n. 种族划分
Many factors are important, for example class, gender, age and ethnicity.
许多因素都很重要，如阶级、性别、年龄及民族。
内容解析
1.Mr Mohamud says Students for Somalia centers its efforts on education.
center on 集中在…；以…为中心
The valuation system of China's customhouse centers on price management.
我国海关估价制度是以实行价格管理为主要内容的。
The study centers on a part of the frontal lobe Broca's area.
研究集中在脑前部的布洛卡区域。
参考译文
这里是美国之音慢速英语教育报道。
赛哈农·穆罕迈德从未在索马里居住过，但这名21岁的学生却帮助成立了一个为这个东非国家提供援助项目组织。赛哈农·穆罕迈德数名为Students for Somalia的组织的联合成立者和主任。他以母亲的人道主义精神为榜样。
穆罕迈德在维吉尼亚威廉斯堡市的威廉玛丽学院上学，距离索马里很远。但是这个海岸国家有他很多亲戚，他的父母也在那里出生。他的母亲菲尔森·达尔曼帮助发起了索马里Aadamiga组织，该组织从1987年起为索马里提供援助。他们逃往索马里首都摩加迪沙以躲避北部的动乱。
赛哈农·穆罕迈德赞扬了母亲的举动，“她在我出生之前就开始帮助索马里。”
穆罕迈德很小就开始参与人道主义项目，他创办Students for Somalia的一个目标是让更多非索马里人参与到帮助索马里的项目中来，他说很多索马里援助组织只有索马里成员。
“所以我的组织和我的信条就是，让每个种族和民族都来帮助索马里，我认为让非索马里人帮助索马里人是一种巨大的资源。”
今年Students for Somalia和Aadamiga联合进行一项消除贫困和提高教育的项目，穆罕迈德说两个组织为长期居住在摩加迪沙难民营的妇女们提供贷款，她们用这些钱来从事食品店之类的小生意，这些妇女必须要有孩子在索马里上学才能获得贷款。
贷款的金额很小，从100到500美元不等。这些妇女必须让孩子上学，这是贷款的条件。她还必须偿还贷款，但穆罕迈德说她们不用将钱还给贷款人，而是给孩子的学校。他说这样学校就能得到改善。
“所以这完全是为了教育和让孩子上学。”
穆罕迈德说Students for Somalia中心最关注教育，他说教育为该国的大多数问题都提供了长远的解决办法。他说如果年轻人母亲的生意很成功，他们就不必非得去学校。他认为这将有助于预防他们成为武装组织的童子军。
这就是美国之音慢速英语教育报道，我是克里斯多夫·克鲁斯。
