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高中英语 VOA常速听力2012年09月合辑（文本）UN-Seeks-Extra-Funding-for-DRC-Displaced素材 GOMA ?a United Nations agencies are appealing for additional funding to help people uprooted by conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Insecurity and the weather are proving to be major challenges for relief operations in the east of the country. The DRC?ˉs most troubled province. Life goes on at a displaced people?ˉs camp on the outskirts of Goma, North Kivu?ˉs capital. Children troop to the schoolhouse singing Let?ˉs go to school so we can learn religion, arithmetic and French. At night the homeless take their place in the classroom and sleep under the desks. Outside, thousands more people who have fled conflict sleep in huts made of sticks and grass, covered with plastic sheets that don?ˉt always keep out the floods. There?ˉs been one general food distribution to the 55,000 people at this informal camp at Kanyarucinya, a few kilometers to the north of Goma, since it was opened several months ago. Everyone, including aid workers, agrees the food was seriously sub-standard. Conditions are difficult here. One man said, We don?ˉt have enough to eat. We could die of hunger here because these beans they?ˉve given us are rotten. But 60 kilometers away up in the mountains of Masisi territory, conditions appear to be even worse for thousands of other displaced people in the towns of Rubaya and Kibabi. A large crowd in Rubaya this week said that they hadn?ˉt had any outside help since July, when they fled from another camp after it was attacked by a militia. Many of them looked undernourished and in poor health. We live like the birds, said one man. He said it was the people in Rubaya who gave them something to eat, a few potatoes now and then. Mwanyera Baraka,12, spoke up, unprompted by anyone, when asked what they were getting to eat. He said that they ate little, sometimes once a day, when at home they could eat three times a day. The United Nations World Food Program (WFP) says it is currently