Respond Blog
The Russian and Arabic Teams Coordinate to Help Students from Gaza
By Machaela Parkin and Mohamed Fenzar
Over the last two months, the Russian and Arabic teams have coordinated to provide translation support to several students from Gaza, translating documents from Arabic to English and then from English into Russian with the help of over a dozen of our talented linguists.
Anna spent 2 years in immigration detention interpreting hundreds of asylum cases for fellow detainees
Anna, a self-taught Russian<>English interpreter, spent 2 years in immigration detention interpreting hundreds of asylum cases for other folks detained with her.Since her release, she continues to support asylum cases with Respond.
Updates From The Respond Ukrainian & Russian Teams
The Respond Ukrainian team translated a list of urgent medications needed in Kharkiv for civilians currently being bombarded.
Guides for detainees without access to language and legal support
15 translators and 5 project managers on the Respond team worked for months to translate hundreds of pages of Pro Se materials into Arabic, Bangla, French, Haitian Creole, Hindi, Portuguese, Punjabi and Russian in collaboration with our wonderful partners at Southern Poverty Law Center.