金沢医科大学英語2012年第5問
As a young girl in New York, Whitney Johnson volunteered to deliver foods and clothes to the homeless. While majoring in psychology at Colorado College, she $\fbox{27}$ an English-language teaching program for immigrant children. No one was surprised, then, when she chose to volunteer in an orphanage* in Khayelitsha, one of South Africa's poorest areas, $\fbox{28}$ her junior year abroad. "I knew at a young age that volunteering was something I was meant to do,” says Johnson.
At the orphanage, Johnson discovered that most of the children had been infected with HIV* at birth. Many ( ア )[ $\fbox{31}$ $\fbox{32}$ ] them, or they were neglected by surviving relatives. Few were receiving the care they needed to stay healthy, $\fbox{29}$ the government had made free drugs available. In fact, only about a quarter of the 330,000 children under 15 living with HIV in South Africa get the medicine they need "The clinics are overcrowded and there is not enough money, staff and supplies," Johnson says. "I saw so many kids dying. When I left South Africa, all I wanted to do was go back and change what I had seen."
After ( イ )graduating from college, Johnson began a fund-raising effort that eventually obtained enough money to $\fbox{30}$ Ubuntu Africa(UBA), a nonprofit organization intended to provide services for HIV-positive children in Khayelitsha. In 2006, she opened her doors in a building across the street from a family-counseling center. It had grass growing through the floorboards, and it flooded on a regular basis, but it was a start.
Now the UBA center is housed in a church big enough for a few shared offices as well as the children. The staff includes counselors, a social worker, a nurse, a cook, and a handful of ( ウ )volunteers, ensuring that each child has access to the proper medicine and treatment, a free healthy meal, and emotional support.
Knowledge, Johnson maintains, is extremely important to the kids' well-being too. Once a week, she makes sure the children receive age-appropriate lessons about AIDS. "When we first started, some of the kids didn't even know they had HIV." Johnson says. "They had been told they had asthma* and refused to receive treatments."
- 注*
- : orphanage 孤児院
- : HIV ヒト免疫不全ウイルスの略
- : asthma 喘息
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- 次の問いに最も適切な答えを、(1)～(6)から1つ選びなさい。$\fbox{35}$
Which one of the following was mentioned as what the staff of Ubuntu Africa do?
- (1) Raise money to increase the number of nonprofit organizations in South Africa.
- (2) Help HIV-positive children so that they can receive proper medical treatment.
- (3) Gather social workers from all over the world to help the poor in Africa.
- (4) Give counseling to the parents of HIV-positive children at the family-counseling center.
- (5) Provide a healthy meal that is inexpensive.
- (6) Receive age-appropriate lessons about AIDS once a week.