The China Foundation for Poverty Alleviation (中国扶贫基金会) has started a program to hire and train 100 local women as substitute mothers (替代妈妈) to take care of left-behind children.
中国扶贫基金会启动了一项计划，招聘并培训100名当地女性作为“替代妈妈”，照顾留守儿童。
The three-year program will select 100 villages across Sichuan Province and hire one woman for each village.
该三年期项目将在四川省选取100个村庄，每个村聘请一名女性。
“It is a model to solve the problem of left-behind children,” said Liu Wenkui, secretary of the foundation.
“这是解决留守儿童问题的一种模式，”基金会秘书长刘文奎说。
The “substitute mothers” will do parents’ job, finding out what the children need and helping them with problems.
“替代妈妈”将承担父母的职责，了解孩子们的需求并帮助他们解决问题。
Each substitute mother will take care of about 300 to 500 children.
每位“替代妈妈”将负责约300至500名儿童。
There will be a “children’s home” in each village to be the mother’s office and children’s playing space.
每个村庄将设立一个“儿童之家”，作为“妈妈”的办公场所和孩子们的玩耍空间。
Their job is to provide quick service and discover the children’s problems.
她们的工作是提供快速服务并发现孩子们的问题。
The program hopes to hire women aged 19 to 55 years old from the villages.
该项目希望从各村招聘年龄在19至55岁之间的女性。
“We want to hire full-time ‘mothers’ to make sure they won’t think about other work,” Liu said.
“我们希望雇佣全职‘妈妈’，确保她们不会考虑其他工作，”刘说。
“We want local women because they understand local languages and cultures.”
“我们希望雇佣本地女性，因为她们懂当地方言和文化。”
The program in Sichuan is an experiment, and Liu said, “If it is a successful model, we will start it in the whole country.”
四川的项目是一个试点，刘表示：“如果这是一个成功的模式，我们将在全国推广。”
“If parents are forced to leave home to earn a living and unable to take their children with them, we are looking for a transitional (过渡的) way to solve the problem,” he added.
“如果父母被迫离家谋生而无法带孩子同行，我们正在寻找一种过渡性的解决方案，”他补充道。
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