using language to change the world - translators without borders
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Translators without Borders Using Language to Change the World
@TranslatorsWB
Val Swisher, Executive Board Member
Knowledge of English
Europeans and Their Languages, June 2012 http://ec.europa.eu/public_opinion/archives/ebs/ebs_386_en.pdf
Europeans and Their Languages, June 2012 http://ec.europa.eu/public_opinion/archives/ebs/ebs_386_en.pdf
Regina in Thange, Kenya
In Sub-Saharan Africa, 1 IN 8 CHILDREN DIE before the age of 5
The biggest cause of infant mortality:
diarrhea
Information is the cure
http://www.lifewater.org/resources-information/programs/hand-pump-repair/
The Math – Why Billions Lack Information
English 20%
Mandarin 20%
French 1%
Spanish 7%
Everyone else 52%
Spoken Languages
Access to knowledge in a native language is critical to empowerment.
“As many as 40 percent of child deaths could be prevented with improved family and community care—not through high-tech health equipment, but though access to solid knowledge, support and basic supplies.” (Unicef, http://www.unicef.org/mdg/childmortality.html)
Translators without Borders is the world’s largest community of humanitarian translators
What We Do: • Connect nonprofit organizations with our
community of translators • Build local language translation capacity • Raise awareness of language barriers
$209,369 $155,283 $100,273
$35,324 $20,267 $14,791 $7,447
$36,336
Some of the non-profits we supported in 2012
Training Maasai schoolteachers to subtitle
The TWB Translators Training Center in Nairobi
MemoQ training in January by Marek Pawelec
from Kalenjin, Luo, Kikuyu, Kamba, Meru, Kisii, Maa, Pokot, Nandi, Kipsigis, Luhya
Translating citizen reports during the Kenyan elections
A mobile app for training frontline healthcare workers
100 Wikipedia Articles into 100 Languages
The Impact
Critical information in Arabic from the UN High Commissioner for Refugees now getting to 1.1 million Syrian refugees.
Basic healthcare information now provided in Swahili to community health workers in Kenya.
Training in neonatal care now available to doctors in Haiti.
Neonatal health videos subtitled in Indic languages available for free the on mobile phones of mothers in India
Complaints and concerns of thousands of non-English speaking Kenyans were recorded and made openly available during Kenyan elections.
The Impact
Says Andrew Alspach, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees manager for Syrian refugees: “Your professionalism and prompt turn-around for this piece of work is impressive and the impact it will have on our Arabic speaking audience, which includes those Syrians directly affected by this crisis, will be profound.”
Says Heather Leson, Ushahidi manager in charge of Kenyan election project: “Without the role played by TWB we could not be celebrating this massive success.”
Says Olivier Bluteau, African field manager for Doctors without Borders: “It is both amazing and also very comforting and inspiring to see people donate their time and skills to defend the principles of action and the ideas of humanitarian assistance.”
So Much More to Do
How Can You Help?
Be Part of It!
Sponsor! Join our sponsors who have committed to making sure knowledge is available in the right language.
Fund-a-Translator We train translators in Kenya and want to train more throughout Africa – we need your help.
Support our TWB Bikers! Make it a company affair! Match donations from employees.
Volunteer We are always in need of more volunteers for translation, but also for test reviews, screenings, project management, web engineering and much more!
Support – THANK YOU
Thanks to our Platinum Sponsors…
…and our Gold Sponsors!
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