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.

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.

Our incredible team has been mobilizing to support victims of the devastating earthquake, translating resources and services into Kurdish Kurmanji, Sorani, Arabic, Armenian, and Turkish, as highlighted in this powerful piece written by Respond community member Leila Lorenzo.

Translating UNICEF Climate Change and Child’s Rights Report into 7 Languages.
Climate Cardinals, a partner of Respond’s since the summer of 2020, is an international youth-led nonprofit working to make the climate movement more accessible to those who don’t speak English…

Following up on the greek team’s activities - we introduce you to another new partner of ours! We are glad to announce our partnership with Sea Shepherd Greece since the beginning of May.

Our greek team of translators has been pretty busy lately - and one of the partners we owe that to is Ethos & Empathy! We are very excited to announce our partnership with Ethos & Empathy since the beginning of May. We have been supporting it non-stop ever since and have learned a lot through our cooperation.

The fires spreading across California are a poignant reminder of the urgency with which we must stand up to address climate change. At Respond, we recognize that environmental justice and language justice are intertwined, and that our climate activism is only as effective as it is linguistically accessible.