Respond Blog
Bringing HIAS’ Financial Literacy Curriculum to Spanish, Russian, Farsi, Nepali, Burmese, Dari and Pashto Speakers!
Respond has been working with HIAS over the last year to make their Financial Literacy curriculum entirely available, in both written translation and audio recording, to refugee clients in Spanish, Russian, and Farsi.
Highlighting our Impact: Partnership with HIAS
HIAS has been around since 1881 as a refugee-serving organization. We protect the most vulnerable refugees, helping them build new lives and reuniting them with their families in safety and freedom. We advocate for the protection of refugees and assure that displaced people are treated with the dignity they deserve….
Growing our remote oral Interpretation team amidst COVID19
At the start of the spread of COVID 19, the Respond Crisis Translation team saw a significant increase in urgent needs for oral interpreting. Victoria Roisman and Nicole Posadas led the launch of a program designed to train and mobilize oral interpreters to support asylum seekers and other people who experience language-based vulnerability.