Haitian native and "Heroes" cast member Jimmy Jean-Louis was searching for his elderly parents in Haiti on Wednesday afternoon after a powerful earthquake struck the nation. Jean-Louis learned that a house he had grown up in collapsed, killing several of his relatives.

《超能英雄》中的海地本土演员Jimmy Jean-Loui 周三下午在海地地震后一直在寻找自己年迈的父母。他听说自己自小长大的一所房子倒了，他的几个亲戚因此丧生。

"I have not slept yet. The second house that I grew up in was down, and some relatives have died, from what I have been told," Jean-Louis said Wednesday. "I haven't been able to reach my parents. I have heard that they are OK, but I do not know what is going on around them."

Jean-Louis 周三说，“我没有睡过觉，我听说，我从小长大的第二所房子倒了，一些亲戚去世了。我还没能联系上我的父母，我听说他们没事，但是我不知道现在情况到底怎么样了。”


Jean-Louis was born in Petionville, Haiti, where he grew up without electricity or running water. He moved to Paris, France, when he was 12 to pursue a modeling career and supported his parents by sending money home since he started acting nearly 20 years ago.

Jean-Louis 出生在海地的贝松市，他在那里长大，没有电，没有自来水。12岁的时候他搬到法国巴黎发展模特事业。自从20年前开始表演之后就一直寄钱回家养活家人。

He is the founder of Hollywood Unites for Haiti, a nonprofit organization whose original mission was to provide sports and cultural education to underprivileged youth on the island. The group is mobilizing for disaster relief after a magnitude-7 earthquake struck Tuesday.

他是好莱坞海地联合会的创始人，好莱坞联合会是一个非营利组织，它最初的宗旨是为这个岛上贫穷的年轻人提供体育和文化的教育。周二里氏7级地震发生后，该组织已经转移到了避难所。

The actor heard about the quake moments after the news broke. For several hours, he was unable to get in touch with anyone on the ground in Haiti. Late Tuesday, he reached a friend who is the local director of Hollywood Unites for Haiti.

在新闻报道后，他知道了地震的消息，他连续几个小时都在联系在海地的人。周二晚些时候，他联系到了好莱坞海地联合会的一个朋友，这个朋友是当地的导演。

"He was stuck in the chaos, and he was supposed to give me complete details about what was going on on the ground and with my family, but all he could say was that the house was down and that some people from the house died," Jean-Louis said. "I'm trying everyone on their cell phones and on their house phones, my parents' friends and the people in their neighborhood, and I have been unable to speak with one person who is close to them."

Jean-Louis说，“混乱中他仍然在坚持，他本来应该告诉我那边和我家人的完整信息，不过他能说出来的只是房子倒了，房子里的一些人死了，我一直在打我父母的朋友和邻居的手机和固定电话，但是直到现在，我一个人也联系不上。”

Jean-Louis, who is best known as "The Haitian" on the NBC series "Heroes," returned from Haiti only a couple of weeks ago after spending the holidays with his parents. He was planning to return this month but will now be traveling much sooner to provide relief aid.

Jean-Louis在NBC的剧集《超能英雄》中饰演“海地人”这个角色，他之前回到海地度假并和父母团聚，几个星期前才回来。他本来计划这个月再回去，不过现在看来他会更快的回去提供援助。

"I am going to try to get in, but I am going to try to understand the situation first to see how I can best help," Jean-Louis said. "The plan is to at some point visit, and right now, I am trying to be as productive as I can be here."

Jean-Louis说“我会尽力回去，不过我首先会搞清楚情况，看我最能帮得上忙的是什么。包括在某一时刻去拜访，但是现在，我会尽量在这里体现出我的价值。”


Jean-Louis and Hollywood Unites for Haiti are encouraging people looking to help to send money instead of goods at the moment.

Jean-Louis 和好莱坞海地联合会正在鼓励想要帮助当地人的人们现在用捐款代替捐物。

"People should understand that sending donations of items and goods will be difficult right now because we will be bombarded and have no way to distribute them," Jean-Louis said.

Jean-Louis说，“人们应该理解现在捐物很难，因为我们现在还在不断的震，没有地方捐东西。”

"I don't think people have any idea how terrible this is because of the circumstances on the ground in Haiti and the lack of the infrastructure. There are no roads, and it is going to be extremely difficult for help to reach people."

“我认为人们不知道因为海地当地的环境和基础设施的缺少使得情况有多糟糕，那里没有公路，救助想要抵达当地人那里将会特别的难。”