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Amidst the chaos, I found Respond. It was, without doubt, the most luminous choice I could have made during the war.
Yes, it was exhausting — endless displacement, unreliable internet, fear that never lifted — Yet Respond became a fragile, flickering light, guiding me through shadows I could not escape.

To be a translator in Gaza means to be a witness to pain and a voice for the survivors. I work under nearly impossible conditions: no electricity, no stable internet connection, no safety, and constant displacement. Yet I carry on, because this work is my way of surviving, of resisting, and of believing that my future is still within reach.

In the summer of 2023, about 25 months ago, I was like any other student in another country, thinking about where to spend the summer. That summer, my choice was to spend it among the warmth of home, family laughter, and the beach. So, my flight ticket from Berlin to Gaza was ready. But unfortunately, the outbreak of war was faster than my return ticket, …

When I first joined RCT, I was drawn to its mission of providing language access and dignity to people in crisis, especially refugees and asylum seekers from marginalized and displaced communities. As someone who grew up seeing how language barriers …

Today I want to share about what these times are like for the community of Haitian people in diaspora–those of us who, due to difficult circumstances, are away from home. For Haitians, leaving Haiti is the hardest thing in life.

ICE raids, detention, deportation, and border violence are shocking communities, as troops raid US cities, rounding up migrants and bystanders alike, while ICE abducts migrants even at routine immigration hearings. But few people know about the language workers …

Last Thursday, Oct. 30, Respond Crisis Translation held a panel at the Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts in San Francisco to talk about language depravation and it was covered by the LOCAL NEWS MATTERS media.