Name: 米奇·艾爾邦在海地的孤兒院：黑幫控制的城市中，孩子們的小小綠洲！ (Mitch Albom's Haiti orphanage, a small oasis for children inside a gang-controlled city)
Uploaded: 2026-03-16T21:36:26.000Z
Duration: 13 min 17 s

It's rare you hear about something good happening in Haiti 16 years after the devastating earthquake, which killed some 200,000 people and left more than a million homeless.

在毀滅性的地震發生 16 年後，你很少聽到海地有什麼好事發生，那場地震造成約 20 萬人死亡，一百多萬人無家可歸。

The government has all but collapsed, and gangs battled for control of the capital, Port au Prince.

政府幾乎崩潰，幫派爭奪首都太平港的控制權。

But tonight, we want to take you to a small oasis in that besieged city where children may be growing up behind walls, but.

但今晚，我們要帶你去看那個被圍困城市裡的一個小綠洲，那裡的兒童可能在圍牆後長大，但是。

It's an orphanage called have faith Haiti that's run by best selling author Mitch Albom and his wife Janine.

這是一間由暢銷書作家 Mitch Albom 和他妻子 Janine 經營的孤兒院，名叫 have faith Haiti。

Since the earthquake, they've been taking in the most at risk kids.

自從地震以來，他們一直在接收最需要幫助的孩子們。

Abandoned infants, toddlers with disabilities, children begging in the streets.

被遺棄的嬰兒、有殘疾的幼童、在街上乞討的孩子們。

It hasn't been easy, but with love, faith and a focus on education, the results have been extraordinary.

這並不容易，但憑藉著愛、信心和對教育的專注，成果非凡。

It's too dangerous for international flights to land in Haiti's capital, so every month, Mitch Albom flies the two hours from Florida to the northern city of Cap Haitian.

海地的首都對國際班機來說太危險了，所以每個月，Mitch Albom 都會從佛羅裡達州飛兩個小時到北部的城市太子港。

That's where we met him and boarded a helicopter to reach Port au Prince.

在那裡我們見到了他，然後搭上直升機前往太平港。

From the air, much of Haiti is a maze of dry riverbeds and rugged mountains stripped of trees.

從空中俯瞰，海地大部分地區都是乾涸的河床和光禿禿的崎嶇山脈交織而成的迷宮。

Then appears Port au Prince, a dense sprawl of chaotic streets and dilapidated buildings.

接著出現的是太平港，一片混亂街道和破舊建築組成的密集蔓延。

Once on the ground, heavily armed guards drive Albom to the orphanage in a convoy of bulletproof vehicles.

一落地，荷槍實彈的警衛就會開著防彈車隊載著 Albom 前往孤兒院。

Just what it takes for you to get in and out of here.

這就是你進出這裡所需要付出的。

From the outside, it looks like a prison.

The concrete walls are 30ft tall with barbed wire and guard towers.

混凝土牆有 30 英尺高，上面有鐵絲網和瞭望塔。

To enter, you have to pass through a series of locked gates.

要進來，你必須通過一連串鎖住的大門。

But once inside, it feels like another world.

但一旦進來，感覺就像另一個世界。

Mr. Mitch, they're chanting, Oh, my goodness.

Mitch 先生，他們正在喊，哦，我的天啊。

Do you get greeted like that every time you come?

你每次進來都會這樣被歡迎嗎？

There are 56 children living here and more than 50 teachers and staff.

這裡住著 56 個孩子，還有 50 多位老師和工作人員。

The kids range from infants and toddlers cared for by nannies to teenagers living in dorms.

孩子們的年齡層很廣，有由保姆照顧的嬰幼兒，也有住在宿舍的青少年。

Most haven't left this seven acre compound in more than four years.

大多數人四年多來都沒有離開過這個七英畝的園區。

They play here, do chores, go to church, and eight hours a day go to school.

他們在這裡玩耍、做家事、上教堂，一天八小時上學。

They're taught in both French and English and prepared to go on to college.

他們同時學習法語和英語，並為上大學做準備。

All children deserve to feel like they have a future and the future is possible.

所有孩子都應該覺得自己有未來，而且未來是可能的。

And there are a lot of children right on the other side of that gate, and

就在那扇門的另一邊，有好多好多孩子，

their bellies are swollen and they're not eating, and that's not fair.

他們肚子腫脹，吃不下東西，這很不公平。

And if my wife And I can do anything to change that.

如果我和我太太能做任何事來改變這一切。

Even if it's a drop in the bucket, that'll be our drop.

即使只是杯水車薪，那也會是我們的貢獻。

You're not doing analysis of a two or three year old and seeing what their cognition is and what they're capable of.

你不是在分析兩三歲的孩子，看他們的認知能力和潛力。

You are just picking kids in the most difficult circumstances.

你只是在挑選處境最艱難的孩子。

We don't give aptitude tests to get in here.

我們不會在這裡做能力測驗來決定錄取。

Most of the kids that come to us aren't even speaking yet.

大部分來我們這裡的孩子都還不會說話。

But if you put them in the right environment and you surround them with other kids who are aspiring to do certain things, they'll grow.

但如果你讓他們處在對的環境，身邊都是有目標想做事的孩子，他們就會成長。

Many were brought here by a desperate parent or family member who couldn't afford to feed them.

很多是被付不起食物的絕望父母或家人送來的。

We try to set the conditions because otherwise it's hundreds and hundreds of children.

我們會試著設定條件，不然會有幾百幾百個孩子。

So we say only if there's one parent, not two.

所以我們說，如果只有一個家長，不是兩個。

Only if there's no home, no actual structure home, you know, or if there's a case of a sickness or something like that.

只有在沒有家、沒有實際的房子，或是家裡有生病之類的情況下。

He was six weeks old and he was starving.

So those stories, those interviews, they broke me in half, but

所以那些故事、那些訪談，讓我心碎，但

they also cemented me to Haiti and cemented me to this operation, which I will do for the rest of my life.

也讓我更堅定地投入海地，更堅定地投入這個我將做一輩子的事工。

Mitch Albom is The author of 19 books, including Tuesdays with Maury and his most recent bestseller, Twice.

Mitch Albom 是 19 本書的作者，包括《Tuesdays with Maury》以及他最新的暢銷書《Twice》。

He first came to Haiti in 2010 after the earthquake.

他在 2010 年地震後第一次來到海地。

That's when Albom, who's Jewish, began fixing up a Christian orphanage run by an elderly pastor.

那時，猶太裔的 Albom 開始修繕一座由一位年長牧師經營的基督教孤兒院。

The pastor basically said, I don't have any money to run this place, and I'm 84 years old.

那位牧師基本上說，我沒有錢經營這個地方，而且我已經 84 歲了。

And I kind of blurted out, well, I could probably run it.

我就脫口而出，嗯，我大概可以經營這個地方。

Bettany was brought here around that time.

A year and a half old, her father died in the earthquake and.

她才一歲半，爸爸在地震中過世了，然後。

Lorvens was malnourished when he came at 3, and Gino was left here by her father at 5.

Lorvens 三歲來的時候營養不良，Gino 五歲時被爸爸留在這裡。

I could say I was a little bit scared because there were a lot of new faces and just a lot of people staring and smiling.

我可以說我有點害怕，因為有很多新面孔，還有很多人盯著我看然後笑。

Were you angry at all when you learned your Story, Honestly, not really, because I know my mom is human and I don't think it was a really bad choice for her to bring me here because she was looking at my future.

當你得知你的故事時，你生氣嗎？老實說，並沒有，因為我知道我媽媽是人，而且我覺得她把我帶來這裡不是一個壞決定，因為她在為我的未來打算。

Lorman，對你來說發生了什麼事。

You'd said that there was a sense of betrayal for you early on because I feel like, why would your own family leave you in a place where you don't know anybody?

你說你早期有被背叛的感覺，因為我覺得，為什麼自己的家人會把你留在一個你不認識任何人的地方？

That feeling of abandonment is something Yannel, the Haitian director of Half Faith Haiti, knows well.

那種被拋棄的感覺，是 Half Faith Haiti 的海地主任 Yannel 很熟悉的。

He was left at the old orphanage 36 years ago when he was five.

他在 36 年前 5 歲時被送到舊的孤兒院。

Yannel's father had three other children and couldn't afford another.

Yannel 的父親還有其他三個孩子，實在無力再撫養一個。

I thought that they hate me back then because they just, you know, kicked me out.

我當時覺得他們恨我，因為他們就這樣把我趕走了。

But later on I would understand why they did that.

但後來我會明白他們為什麼這麼做。

That's why I forgive him, you know, because I think they do it out of love.

這就是為什麼我原諒他，因為我覺得他們是出於愛才這麼做的。