The Texas-born, Los Angeles-based model told 10 daily on Sunday that she had been left upset and emotional after seeing images of the bushfires on her social media feeds, and was concerned the disaster wasn't getting enough international attention.
這位出生于得克薩斯州，生活在洛杉磯的模特告訴10 daily，周日在她的社交媒體推送里看到山火的照片后，她覺得很沮喪很傷心，認(rèn)為這場災(zāi)難沒有得到足夠的國際上的關(guān)注。
"I saw so much media coverage about other things happening in the world, like when Notre Dame burned down and lots of people were posting and donating, but I didn't see a lot of people doing that for Australia."
“我看到許多關(guān)于世界上發(fā)生的其他事情的媒體報(bào)道，例如巴黎圣母院被燒毀，很多人在發(fā)帖和捐款，但是我卻沒有看到很多人為澳大利亞這樣做?！?/div>
Ward is currently on holiday in the Caribbean, and before going to bed two nights ago, decided to ask her large social media following -- as of time of writing, she has 42,000 followers on both Instagram and Twitter -- to send money to Australian fundraisers.
沃德目前正在加勒比海度假，并且在兩晚前，她上床睡覺之前，決定要她社交媒體上的一大批粉絲（截至撰寫本文時(shí)，她在Instagram和Twitter上都有42,000位關(guān)注者）將錢匯給澳大利亞的籌款活動。
"I already have people who will buy nude photos of me, so I asked all my followers who already send me money anyway to send that in for a good cause," she said with a laugh.
“有人會出錢買我的裸照，所以我讓我所有的粉絲把這筆錢花在好地方?！彼χf。
Ward said other models had started their own fundraisers inspired by her idea to trade pictures for donations. One friend, Jenna Lee -- with 764,000 followers on Instagram and 29,000 on Twitter -- posted her own offer of pictures for each $10 donated to bushfire fundraisers on Sunday.
沃德說，其他模特也開始了自己的募捐活動，受她的想法啟發(fā)，他們也用圖片來激勵捐贈。她的一位朋友珍娜·李在Instagram上擁有76.4萬名粉絲，在Twitter上有29,000名粉絲——周日捐贈者們每給山火籌款項(xiàng)目捐贈10美元，她就會提供一張自己的照片。
She said, as of Sunday afternoon, she had verified around $15,000 of donations from her followers, just four hours after posting her offer on Twitter.
她說，截至周日下午，在Twitter上發(fā)布邀請后僅四個小時(shí)，她就已核實(shí)了其粉絲的約15000美元捐款。
"When I first started I was nervous, super anxious. But five minutes later, my inbox was flooded and those thoughts went out the window," she said.
她說：“剛開始的時(shí)候，我很緊張，非常焦慮。但是五分鐘后，我的收件箱像是被淹沒了，那些想法也就隨之消失了。”
Ward said that, following the response to her idea, that she may do similar fundraisers for other disasters in future, and is considering starting an organisation to encourage other models to follow suit.
沃德說，在她的想法得到回應(yīng)之后，她可能會在將來為其他災(zāi)難做類似的籌款活動，并且正在考慮建立一個組織來鼓勵其他模特效仿。
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澳洲大火如今事態(tài)如何
自9月以來，澳洲大火已經(jīng)持續(xù)了四個月。
而最近，大火的濃煙已經(jīng)沖出澳洲，開始影響其他國家，例如南美的巴西。
巴西當(dāng)?shù)匾患覛庀蠊颈硎荆闹奚交饘?dǎo)致的濃煙目前已經(jīng)到達(dá)了巴西最南部的南里奧格蘭德州（Rio Grande do Sul），并從西北部方向開始飄入該地區(qū)。
聯(lián)合國世界氣象組織（WMO）近日發(fā)布相關(guān)預(yù)測，指出山火濃煙已經(jīng)飄過太平洋海域并給南美洲多個城市造成影響，而且煙霧甚至可能已到達(dá)南極地區(qū)。
希望這場災(zāi)難盡早結(jié)束。
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