From Personal Loss Comes the Wish to Help Others
化个人的悲伤为助人的愿望
(Originally in English)
When Susan Retik and Patti Quigley lost their husbands to the World Trade Center attacks of September 11, 2001, the two Boston women, both pregnant at the time, grieved even as they received an outpouring of financial and emotional support.
苏珊．瑞蒂克（Susan Retik）和帕蒂．奎格利（Patti Quigley）在2001年9月11日世贸中心遭到攻击时，各自失去了丈夫。当时这二位波士顿妇女都怀有身孕，尽管她们得到了经济上及精神上大量的支持，但仍然感到悲伤不已。
One day after Retik saw a TV show about Afghan women, she and Quigley realized that they were lucky compared to the one million Afghan women who had been widowed over more than two decades of conflict. The two women were aware that they had received a great deal of support from their family and community, whereas the Afghan women were left without even the means to support their children. The two widows decided to share the monies they had received with the war widows in Afghanistan.
有一天，当瑞蒂克看完一个有关阿富汗妇女的电视节目后，她和奎格利了解到：与这些因为二十多年来的冲突而丧夫的一百万名阿富汗妇女相比，自己算是幸运的了。她们知道自己有来自家人及小区的大量支持，可是阿富汗妇女却连扶养小孩的办法都没有。因此，这二位遗孀决定拿出她们所得的款项，与阿富汗境内因战争而丧偶的妇女分享。
Thus, in 2003 they established Beyond the 11th, a non-profit foundation to aid widows in areas touched by conflict. Each of the two women made a substantial personal contribution, and to raise more money they organized a bicycle tour from Ground Zero in New York to Boston.
于是她们在2003年创建了一个名为「超越911」的非营利性基金会，并各自捐出了大笔的金钱，专门帮助战争地区的遗孀们。为了筹募更多的基金，她们发起了一个从纽约灾变现场到波士顿的「自行车之旅」。
To date, Beyond the 11th has contributed approximately US$170,000 to income-generating programs run by CARE International. They have also contributed to Women for Women International and to Arzu Rugs, a program that teaches Afghan women to weave rugs. This program has been able to help nearly 2,500 women so far.
迄今，「超越911」已经捐赠了约十七万美元给「国际关怀协会」（CARE International）的「收入创造计划」（income-generating programs），并捐款给「国际妇女协会」（Women for Women International）及教导阿富汗妇女编织地毯的「阿尔兹地毯计划」（Arzu Rugs）。截至目前，这项计划已帮助了将近二千五百位妇女。
"Our goal is to help a woman become self-sufficient so she can give to her children what she didn't have for herself," Retik says.
瑞蒂克说：「我们的目标是要帮助妇女能够自力更生，这样她们才能给予小孩自己以前所缺乏的东西。」
A new documentary movie about their story, Beyond Belief, has been released recently.
最近，一部关于她们故事的纪录片《难以置信》（Beyond Belief）已经上映了。
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化个人的悲伤为助人的愿望
(Originally in English)
When Susan Retik and Patti Quigley lost their husbands to the World Trade Center attacks of September 11, 2001, the two Boston women, both pregnant at the time, grieved even as they received an outpouring of financial and emotional support.
苏珊．瑞蒂克（Susan Retik）和帕蒂．奎格利（Patti Quigley）在2001年9月11日世贸中心遭到攻击时，各自失去了丈夫。当时这二位波士顿妇女都怀有身孕，尽管她们得到了经济上及精神上大量的支持，但仍然感到悲伤不已。
One day after Retik saw a TV show about Afghan women, she and Quigley realized that they were lucky compared to the one million Afghan women who had been widowed over more than two decades of conflict. The two women were aware that they had received a great deal of support from their family and community, whereas the Afghan women were left without even the means to support their children. The two widows decided to share the monies they had received with the war widows in Afghanistan.
有一天，当瑞蒂克看完一个有关阿富汗妇女的电视节目后，她和奎格利了解到：与这些因为二十多年来的冲突而丧夫的一百万名阿富汗妇女相比，自己算是幸运的了。她们知道自己有来自家人及小区的大量支持，可是阿富汗妇女却连扶养小孩的办法都没有。因此，这二位遗孀决定拿出她们所得的款项，与阿富汗境内因战争而丧偶的妇女分享。
Thus, in 2003 they established Beyond the 11th, a non-profit foundation to aid widows in areas touched by conflict. Each of the two women made a substantial personal contribution, and to raise more money they organized a bicycle tour from Ground Zero in New York to Boston.
于是她们在2003年创建了一个名为「超越911」的非营利性基金会，并各自捐出了大笔的金钱，专门帮助战争地区的遗孀们。为了筹募更多的基金，她们发起了一个从纽约灾变现场到波士顿的「自行车之旅」。
To date, Beyond the 11th has contributed approximately US$170,000 to income-generating programs run by CARE International. They have also contributed to Women for Women International and to Arzu Rugs, a program that teaches Afghan women to weave rugs. This program has been able to help nearly 2,500 women so far.
迄今，「超越911」已经捐赠了约十七万美元给「国际关怀协会」（CARE International）的「收入创造计划」（income-generating programs），并捐款给「国际妇女协会」（Women for Women International）及教导阿富汗妇女编织地毯的「阿尔兹地毯计划」（Arzu Rugs）。截至目前，这项计划已帮助了将近二千五百位妇女。
"Our goal is to help a woman become self-sufficient so she can give to her children what she didn't have for herself," Retik says.
瑞蒂克说：「我们的目标是要帮助妇女能够自力更生，这样她们才能给予小孩自己以前所缺乏的东西。」
A new documentary movie about their story, Beyond Belief, has been released recently.
最近，一部关于她们故事的纪录片《难以置信》（Beyond Belief）已经上映了。
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