Yvonne: Six years ago I lost one of my musicians. I'd come from Gabon to perform—it was South Africa's 10th anniversary since we had our freedom—and it was an amazing trip that we had. Little did I know that, when we'd get home, one of my musicians would have contracted malaria from Gabon. And when we got home, three days later she died of 5)cerebral malaria. So for me it was so 6)traumatizing because she was 38 at that time and she had left a nine-year-old boy, so it made me want to do something.
伊冯娜:六年前,我失去了一位音乐人。我那时从加蓬去参加表演——那是南非独立十周年庆典活动——很难忘的一次旅程。我万万没想到结束表演回来后竟会发现我的一位随团音乐人早已从加蓬感染了疟疾。我们回到来,三天后,她就因为脑型疟疾而病逝。我伤心欲绝,因为她那时候才38岁,留下一个九岁大的儿子,所以,当时我很想做点什么。
Lucy: What were the 7)symptoms? I mean, did you know that she was ill?
露西:她有什么症状吗?我意思是,你那会儿知道她生病了吗?
Yvonne: Well, we actually didn't know. You know, she just complained of headaches and fever and things like that, and she went to the doctor and the doctor said, “You've got fever”, and so for me she was 8)misdiagnosed. You know, if I knew what I've known now [sic] I would have insisted that she go for malaria test [sic] and “you do this, you do that”because it is preventable, and it's curable.
伊冯娜:我们真的不知道。你知道吧,她只是说自己头疼发烧之类的,然后她去看医生,医生也只是说“你发烧了”,所以在我看来,她那时候是给误诊了。如果当时我具备现在所知的那一切相关知识,我肯定会坚持让她作疟疾检验,让她这样那样做,要知道,疟疾是完全可以预防,也可以治愈的。
But I think God works in wonders because six months down the line I got a call from UNICEF. They wanted a goodwill ambassador. And when I told them about my story, and I said “If I have to air my views, if I have to be educated, if I have to educate people there as well, I want to do…to deal with malaria.” And when I had…had learned that malaria kills 3,000 people a day, that was even more 9)traumatic for me. I said to myself, “I know people have been doing something, people have been helping, but I need to get on board and do something.” And that's how it started.
但我觉得上帝的力量是很神奇的,因为六个月后,我收到了来自联合国儿童基金会的电话。他们要找一位亲善大使,我就告诉他们我身边的这个故事,我说:“如果要我说出自己的看法,要我接受培训,要我去教育他人,我想做……处理疟疾这方面的工作。”后来当我知道每天有三千人死于疟疾的时候,更是觉得痛心。我对自己说:“我知道一直有人在努力,在帮忙改善情况,但我也要加入,要尽我的一份力。” 我就是这样开始的。