联合国儿童基金会是服务于儿童的全球机构，是致力于改善儿童的健康与营养状况，提供洁净水和环境卫生设施，保障所有男孩和女孩都能接受优质的基础教育，并保护儿童免受暴力、剥削和艾滋病的侵害的组织。
The UNICEF aims to serve the children around the world by improving children's health and nutrition needs, providing clear water and needed healthcare services, providing the basic education to all regardless boys or girls as well as protecting them from violence, exploitation, AIDS and other dangerous conditions.
“什么是儿童基金会？”8月9日上午，我们中外新闻社小记者们带着疑问进入联合国儿童基金会驻华办事处进行采访。
"What is UNICEF?" August 9th, the junior journalists took this question and visited the UNICEF China Office.
走进大厅内，便看到联合国儿童基金会的标志：地球内有一个孩子被一个大人抱起，可见这是一个携手为儿童的组织。联合国儿童基会驻华代表处新闻官刘莉姐姐把我们领到会议室，向我们小记者简单的介绍了联合国儿童基会驻华代表处的基本情况。十分钟后，联合国儿基会驻华总代表麦吉莲 Gillian Mellsop 女士出现在我们面前，我们顿时觉得：她就像一位慈爱的“母亲”，她用“妈妈”的慈爱呵护着我们成长。
When we were entering the main hall, we saw the symbol of UNICEF: a child in the world holed by an adult. The Information Officer of the UNICEF China Office Ms. Liu Li led us to the meeting room and introduced a little bit about the office in China and the current status. Ten minutes later, the Chief Representative of UNICEF to China Mrs. Gillian Mellsop came into the room. We all felt that she is like a very kind mother and she uses her motherly love to serve all children.
麦吉莲总代表首先欢迎我们中外新闻社小记者采访联合国儿童基会驻华代表处，她说：“作为一个联合国的机构和一个儿童问题国际权威机构，联合国儿童基金会在中国与中国政府合作，通过开发示范性的项目、模式和方法，来帮助提高中国向其最偏远贫困地区的儿童提供必要服务的能力。我们关注的是中国最弱势的儿童群体。”
Mrs Mellsop firstly welcomed us to the office. She said: "As a United Nation's organization and an interna tional authority on children related issues, the UNICEF extensively cooperates with Chinese government and developed many exemplary programs and models to providing necessary services to the most vulnerable groups of children who live in remote and poor areas in China. We mostly concerned about their living conditions because of lack of resources."
采访中我们得知：麦吉莲女士曾先后担任联合国儿童基金会驻尼泊尔和太平洋岛屿国家的代表。她于2003年加入联合国儿童基金会，在此之前，她曾在澳大利亚国际发展署和新西兰外交部工作。她拥有新西兰奥克兰大学的人类学和历史学学士学位，以及位于澳大利亚堪培拉的澳大利亚国立大学的发展管理学硕士学位。能够在中国帮助更多需要关爱的儿童，麦吉莲女士感到十分振奋。
Mrs. Mellsop was the UNICEF Chief Representative in Nepal and the Pacific island countries. She joint the UNICEF in 2003. Before that, she was working at Australian International Development Department and New Zealand Foreign Affairs Ministry. She has a bachelor's degree in Anthropology and History from Auckland University and a master's degree in Development Management from National University of Australia. She feel extremely excited to work in China and serve more children.
康晨阳小记者问：“你好，麦吉莲总代表！我是来自西安市的小记者，我想知道你们是怎样帮助中国的孩子们？”
Kang Chenyang asked: "Good morning, Mrs. Mellsop! I'm a junior journalist from Xi'an city. I want to know how the UNICEF is helping Chinese children?"
麦吉莲：“这是个很好的问题。我们联合国儿童基金会帮助的方面很多，如卫生健康，教育，以及防治艾滋病等。例如：在青海省，孩子们营养不良，可能会导致儿童智力发展受到影响。所以我们发明了"营养包"这种食品。我们免费向青海提供。可以将它放入食物中，来补充营养，让孩子们不受疾病困扰。我们联合国儿童基金会致力于在贫困地区进行试点项目，也将好的经验带入中国。”
Mrs. Mellsop: "This is a good question. We provide much
assistance from the UNICEF, such as healthcare, education, ADIS protection. For example, in Qinghai province, the children there suffer malnutrition; some of them are threaten by improper intellectual development. Therefore, we invented a kind of food addition, called "Nutrition Package" and provided them to all children in Qinghai for free. Those packages can be mixed with regular food and provide necessary nutrition to fight with diseases. UNICEF will bring the good experience to China and help out more children in need."
在回答小记者如何能与世界其他地 的贫困儿童沟通、交流并帮助他们时，麦吉莲说，互联网是一个非常棒的交流平台。目前中国加大对非洲儿童捐助的力度，并在非洲建立了很多小学。联合国儿童基金会有一个教育处部门，它的一个很重要的工作就是利用互联网这个平台，将农村儿童或在城市的农村儿童通过互联网进行交流和学习。
When answering how the junior journalists can help the children living in poverty in other countries, Mrs. Mellsop said that the internet is an excellent communication platform to connect with those unfortunate kids. China is currently making great efforts to build more schools in Africa and help the local kids to go to school. UNICEF also has an education department, whose key focus is to utilize the internet to build close connections between the children in rural areas and urban cities.
小记者们纷纷就自己关心的问题向麦吉莲提问。采访结束，小记者们把平时积累下的零花钱捐献出来，通过联合国儿童基金会帮助需要帮助的困难儿童。麦吉莲总代表非常高兴，为小记者们颁发了“优秀小记者证书”。
Junior journalists asked many questions during the interview. At the end of the visit, all delegation members made donations to the UNICEF Fund to help more children in need through this wonderful UN organization. Mrs. Mellsop was very happy and awarded the certificates to each junior journaslits.
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