February 6 marks the one-year anniversary of the Turkey-Syria earthquake that killed more than 59,000 people, one of the region’s largest natural disasters in history.

The earthquake disproportionately devastated Kurdish areas; meanwhile, disaster response was discriminatory toward ethnic minorities, especially Kurds.

A message from Respond’s founder Ariel Koren: “On behalf of the Respond Crisis Translation team, I wanted to say a huge THANK YOU for your ongoing support of our work at Respond. I also wanted to take this opportunity to give you a brief update about our work over the past year, so much of which was made possible by the support of our generous donors and supporters…”

Respond Crisis Translation Ukrainian and Russian teams have worked tirelessly around-the-clock since the start of the war on Russia in 2022. In this video, the head of our Ukrainian and Russian teams Tetyana Grygor'yeva shares her powerful experience leading this work

Late one Friday afternoon in early March, one of our partner organizations, the Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti (IJDH), contacted me with an urgent request: to translate and subtitle a video from their Haitian partner organization, the Bureau des Avocats Internationaux (BAI) discussing the fight for justice for victims of sexual violence…

By Valentina Callari Lewis
In addition to responding to the post-earthquake emergency, our Turkish and Kurdish teams continue their everyday work providing language support for asylum seekers.

Language is an access and social justice issue. And there are so many challenges that emerge around it. I’ve already talked about the importance of humane and sensitive translation. But another is the constantly changing nature of fieldwork. To this end, I am deeply grateful for …

“We try to find the best way to support each case with the human kindness and warmth that is often denied to language minorities,” Tatiana said when asked to talk about what she values most about her work as the Spanish Team Lead at Respond. 

At Respond, our commitment is not only to language justice but also to economic justice, so we need to make sure that we pay them dignified wages for this life-critical dialectical work. 

We are looking for translators from Ukrainian to English, German, Czech, Polish and other languages. We are looking for medical and legal translators and proofreaders in English, German, and French.

Thank you to the wonderful interpreter from the Bengali team for working with us, and thank you to all the wonderful interpreters at Respond who are the voice of hope to detainees and people facing language barriers!

Translation has been a crucial part of human life since the dawn of history. It has always been present in different aspects of human communication. Its practice and approaches were exposed to change, adapting to the multifaceted manifestation of world development. It is a bridge to …

Danielle Josyle, shares about a project she did outside of her work with Respond. We honor all that Danielle does.

Language is the biggest treasure of every person and ethnos, without the language there is no nation, the language is the DNA of the nation. Ominously true sound the words of Ukrainian poetess Lina Kostenko: “Nations do not die of …

We are committed to working with all directly impacted by language exclusion and violence to create platforms for insisting on justice and reparations for people in the aftermath of language violence.

Without the help of interpreters like those who stepped forward at Respond Crisis, we would not have been able to do our part of this community wide effort. Respond has truly allowed us to respond during this crisis.

Respond collaborated with South Asian Americans Leading Together (SAALT) to translate the “We Can Do This” vaccination toolkit which included information about COVID-19 vaccines. The materials were translated by Respond translators into Bangla, Nepali, Tamil, Arabic, Hindi, and Urdu.

Respond team interprets for AOL v Mayorkas Hearing: marking first time federal court is streamed in different languages. We provided a livestream in Haitian Kreyol and Spanish for yesterday’s federal court hearing…

Respond’s Language Quality Lead and Spanish interpreter Romina Galloso Sabat provided 2 hours of live simultaneous English/Spanish interpretation for a worker roundtable hosted by Next100.

In this article, Romina Galloso, translator, interpreter and Language Outcomes Quality Lead at Respond Crisis Translation, shares her thoughts on her experience working as an interpreter for therapy sessions.

Respond’s Spanish and Haitian Creole teams will be doing simultaneous interpreting for the release of Embracing Our Strengths, a two-part, immigrant-designed and immigrant-led project to address the needs of undocumented and mixed-status immigrant families through improved state policy…