Translators without Borders

Not knowing the community's languages before addressing their other needs. ✋🏼🟥

What other things in language inclusion deserve a red card? 🚩⚽️

🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ June is Pride month, a time for celebration, commemoration, and protest centered on the LGBTQIA+ community.

Across the world, millions of displaced and asylum-seeking LGBTQIA+ people are systematically overlooked by aid organizations. Some of the countries where this marginalization is most intense are also the most linguistically diverse, compounding the threats to their safety.

We urge humanitarian organizations to be true allies for the LGBTQIA+ community. Review your organization's programs and policies in light of data and lived experiences to ensure the specific needs of LGBTQIA+ people in crises, including their language preferences, are taken care of.

🙌🏾 Credits to The International PRIDE Centre for the information featured in this post.

Pride photo credits:
- “Dzaleka Refugee Camp, Malawi” by Dani Villanueva, CC BY-NC 2.0
- “WomDay28” by MONUSCO/Sylvain Liechti, CC BY-SA 2.0
- “IMGP8210” by ☻☺, CC BY-SA 2.0

June 20th is World Refugee Day.

Using the right language is important for refugees' rights. Without it, there is no safety.

CLEAR Global stands with refugees and their right to safety. Our mission is to get people vital information in their language. Our app Tarjimly was built with refugees in mind, and this year, we'll be able to scale it in Uganda, where displaced people will have access to interpretation services to receive essential information and be heard.

Read more about why we are doing this 👉🏾

📷 Photo credits:
- “Working with UNHCR to help refugees in South Sudan by Robert Stansfield/DFID. CC BY-SA 2.0
- “An informal tented settlement, home to around 50 Syrian refugee families in the Bekaa Valley, Lebanon" by Russell Watkins/DFID. CC BY 2.0
- “Wiki for Refugees 2023 physical training at Refugee Led Organisation Network Uganda” by Ssekandijames / Wikimedia Commons. CC BY 4.0

Oh, the life of a linguist 💆🏼 May this bring you positive energy on your next project and help you conquer all your translation challenges! 💪🏼

Ndugu’s story brought tears to our eyes. Being a young volunteer with Translators without Borders sent him on a wonderful journey that he kindly shared with us. Thank you, Ndugu! 💛

Read Ndugu’s novel: https://hubs.ly/Q04cgWBT0

Where has volunteering taken you? We’d love to read your stories in the comments. ⬇️