Respond’s Afghan language interpreters and translators have become a lifeline for refugees and asylum seekers.

Over the past four months, Respond’s Afghan Languages Team Lead Uma Mirkhail and her team have taken on nearly 300 individual projects, offering their trauma-informed services to over 7,508 Afghans seeking asylum in…

Over seventy thousand Nicaraguans have been forced into exile over the past 5 years. Their stories are stories of resilience and survival, but their journey is far from over. This year alone, 222 political prisoners subjected to torture and imprisonment had their passports revoked, making them stateless and in desperate need of asylum.

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…”

At Respond Crisis Translation we witness that language access is central to the struggle against violence everywhere.

Our team is working tirelessly to address language violence and language gaps that are fueling the ongoing genocide of Palestinians in Gaza. One of many examples is the systemic mistranslation of common Arabic words that…

This is Leila Ehsan, Respond’s Iranian Languages Lead. I am reaching out with an urgent update from some of our Pashto and Dari translators based in Kabul and with ways we can support them.