Sanliurfa in Turkey is less than an hour by road from Syria.
土耳其的桑尼乌法距离叙利亚不到一个小时的车程。
It is home to over 400,000 refugees who fled the violence over the border.
它是40多万难民的家园,他们逃离了边境的暴力。
They make up some 20% of the city's population. Resources were already stretched.
他们占城市人口的20%。资源已经捉襟见肘。
Now the coronavirus pandemic is plunging many refugees deeper into poverty.
现在,冠状病毒的流行使许多难民陷入更深的贫困。
Former teacher Shihad Bin Ali is now struggling to find work.
前教师施哈德·本·阿里现在正在努力寻找工作。
No one is working. God should take this virus away; we live in a very difficult situation.
没有人在工作。上帝应该把这种病毒带走;我们生活在一个非常困难的环境中。
Most of the Syrians were working as casual daily workers and because of this virus, the people are facing serious problems.
大多数叙利亚人都是临时日工,由于这种病毒,人民面临着严重的问题。
The refugees are barred from traveling to other cities for work. Most don't get any support from employers as they work illegally in the informal black economy.
难民被禁止去其他城市工作。大多数人在非法经济中工作,因此得不到雇主的任何支持。
The Turkish government is providing financial support to its citizens, with cash payments of $140 per month and access to loans. Refugees don't qualify.
土耳其政府正在向其公民提供财政支持,每月支付140美元现金,并获得贷款。难民没有资格。
Abdullah Ouda fled his home in Homs, Syria and settled in Sanliurfa.
阿卜杜拉·乌达逃离他在叙利亚霍姆斯的家,定居在桑利乌法。
Many people are in quarantine. There is no work, the young people were going out and working but there is no work anymore.
许多人被隔离。没有工作,年轻人出去工作,但现在已经没有工作了。
In this situation, the people are in need, and they have no money to buy food. We pray that God should take this virus away.
在这种情况下,人民需要帮助,他们没有钱买食物。我们祈祷上帝把这种病毒带走。
Refugees receive a prepaid cash card from the Turkish Red Crescent, funded partly by the European Union.
难民从土耳其红新月会收到一张预付现金卡,部分资金来自欧盟。
But it amounts to just 120 Turkish liras, or 17 dollars a month.
但它只相当于120土耳其里拉,即每月17美元。
The electricity bill is 400 liras, the water bill is 150 liras, and rent of the house is 1,100 liras,
电费400里拉,水费150里拉,房租1100里拉,
The money is just not enough for our expenses. Unfinished apartment blocks sprawl south toward the Syrian border, evidence of Sanliurfa's rapid expansion.
这些钱不够我们花。未完工的公寓区向南延伸至叙利亚边境,这是桑利乌法迅速扩张的证据。
Many migrants have been here for several years. They fled war back home and found a new life in Turkey,
许多移民已经在这里住了好几年了。他们逃离战争回到家乡,在土耳其找到了新的生活,
but with no jobs and little help, the future for these Syrian refugees is once again deeply uncertain.
但由于没有工作,也没有什么帮助,这些叙利亚难民的未来再次充满了不确定性。
Henry Ridgwell for VOA news
亨利·里奇维尔,VOA新闻