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Leading the Utah Navajo COVID-19 Relief Program, Pete Sands is a lifeline for his community.
皮特·桑茲 是猶他州納瓦霍新冠肺炎關照計劃負責人 也是整個社區的救命稻草。
Here's what he's seeing, in his own words
如下便是他親口講述的所見所聞。
WHEN THE UTAH NAVAJO HEALTH SYSTEM FIRST CAME together,
猶他州納瓦霍部落所有醫務人員第一次全體集合，
with administrators and the board members watching this virus,
管理層和董事會成員也一齊將目光鎖定在這次的病毒上時，
there was just something that kind of spoke inside all of us, saying, “This is going to come here.”
我們所有人的內心都有一個聲音在說，“最后肯定會傳到我們這兒。”
The Navajo Nation already has high factors of diabetes, lung disease, heart disease, a lot of the health risks.
納瓦霍部落糖尿病、肺病、心臟病等多種疾病的風險本來就高。
And we knew if this comes here, it's going to devastate the Navajo Nation, and that's what it did.
我們也知道，如果（疫情）真的擴散過來了，納瓦霍部落肯定得完，現實正是如此。
At the end of February, I started the relief program, down here on the Navajo reservation in Montezuma Creek, Utah.
我2月底就在猶他州蒙特祖馬河地帶的納瓦霍保留地啟動關照計劃了。
Before this, I was the health system's media guy.
在這之前，我其實是做醫療媒體的。
I have a band and did some work on Yellowstone, the TV show, but I'm from this community; I grew up here.
我還有一個樂隊，在電視劇《黃石公園》的劇組也干過一段時間，但我終歸是從這兒走出去的；我是在這兒長大的。
There were a lot of programs at the clinic that a lot of community members didn't know about,
部落里的很多人其實對我們診所的很多項目都不太了解，
and they wanted me to help get the word out.
診所那邊就希望我能幫他們宣傳宣傳。
So once I did that, the community kind of saw me as a liaison.
接手之后，部落的人基本就把我當成他們的聯絡員了。
On the reservation, a lot of homes don't have running water or electricity.
保留地上的很多人家里都還沒通上自來水，沒通上電。
So our focus when we started was to help people who are living in super rural areas.
所以，我們一開始就把工作重點放在了幫助生活在最偏遠的地區的家庭上面。
We have a drive-up service where people can come to pick up food, but we also have a home-delivery system.
我們有自提服務，大家可以自己開車過來領食物，也有送貨上門服務。
Where we live right now has become the hot spot on the Navajo Nation,
我們現在住的這個地方已經成了整個部落的（疫情）高風險區，
so we go to a lot of homes that are quarantined.
我們走訪的很多家庭都正在隔離。
We get names from other local health districts or the behavioral-health programs.
我們先從當地其他的衛生區和行為健康項目那里整理出我們的關照名單。
They know about the elderly people who live deep in the canyons and have nobody, or if they're taking care of a disabled child.
因為他們知道峽谷深處哪里住著無依無靠的老人，哪里又住著還要照顧殘疾兒童的老人。
It's still cold here at night, so we deliver firewood.
這邊現在晚上還是挺冷的，所以我們還會給他們送柴火。
We haul water for livestock and for drinking, and we give out a lot of food packages.
我們還運水給他們和他們的家畜喝，還發放了很多包裝食品。
We focus on the Utah part of Navajo Nation, which is huge.
我們重點關照的是猶他州的納瓦霍部落，因為這邊的納瓦霍人真的非常非常多。
The landscapes are different—some are desert terrain, some of it is like Navajo Mountain.
這邊的地貌差異也很大——有沙漠，也有納瓦霍山那樣的大山。
There are people who live in places that are so far away from the nearest town, who have lived there for generations.
有些住的地方離城鎮真的是遠得不能再遠了，還是祖祖輩輩都住在那兒的。
They need help.
他們需要援手。
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