A U.N. programme to break the poverty cycle by providing small housing loans to slum-dwellers is set to take off in six nations after agreements were signed on Thursday.
聯合國一項藉由提供小型房貸給貧民窟居民以打破貧窮循環的計畫，於週四簽署協議之後，即將在6個國家上路。
Launching the project at a meeting in Nairobi, the U.N. housing agency UN-Habitat said financial institutions in Argentina, Bangladesh, Kenya, Nepal, Tanzania and Uganda would receive loans of up to $500,000 for housing slum-dwellers.
聯合國住宅主管機關「聯合國人類住區規劃署」在奈洛比一場會議中推出這項方案時表示，阿根廷、孟加拉、肯亞、尼泊爾、坦尚尼亞及烏干達的金融機構將會得到多達50萬美元貸款來提供給貧民窟居民。
Funded by Spain, Bahrain and the Rockefeller Foundation, the $5 million Experimental Reimbursable Seeding Operations project lends the money to local banks that will in turn lend to the urban poor.
由西班牙、巴林及洛克斐勒基金會資助、規模500萬美元的「實驗性有償播種行動」把這筆錢借給當地銀行，再轉借給都市貧民。
New housing will be built in eight slums in Nepal under the project, which is expected to help at least 6,700 people there.
根據這項計畫，尼泊爾8個貧民窟將興建新住宅，預計至少造福 6,700名當地民眾。
The U.N. programme has a total budget of $5 million of which $3.6 million is available to be lent to developing nations with $1.4 million for administration, staff time and legal fees.
這項聯合國計畫總預算為500萬美元，其中360萬美元可用來借給開發中國家，140萬美元用來支付行政、員工工時及法律費用。
新聞辭典 Dictionary
take off ：片語，（飛機）起飛；開始；脫掉（衣服）。例句：Twenty minutes after the plane taking off, she took her coat off and took a nap.（飛機起飛後20分鐘，她脫下外套打起盹來。）
reimbursable：形容詞，可補償的。動詞型態是reimburse，是正式用語，指償還、補償。例句：She was reimbursed by the gas company for the damage to her house.（瓦斯公司因為她的房屋受損而提供她補償金。）
in turn︰輪流地、反過來。例句︰Theory is based on practice and in turn serves practice.（理論以實踐為基礎，反過來又為實踐服務。）
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