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2024 in Numbers - French team updates
Since the beginning of the year, the French team has worked on 325 projects — that is more than 1 project per day! It also represents more than 30 % of all projects the French team has ever received since September 2019, when Respond was first created!
Since January 2024, our East Asian Languages Team has supported 111 cases across 17 languages
Respond Crisis Translation has been doing a little bit of restructuring, and part of that has been moving many of our smaller East and Southeast Asian language teams from the LFR team to a new East Asia team, which combines those languages with our Chinese languages team. ...
359 asylum cases translated by Respond’s Brazilian Portuguese team since January 2024
WE ARE PROUD!
Since January 2024, Respond has helped 424 people directly (without the intermediation of another organisation). We never charge individuals, which means we use funds, resources from other organisations and a lot of voluntary work. The main cases have been related to asylum seekers or people trying to rebuild their lives in another country.
Several asylum and legal victories for speakers of marginalized languages made possible by Respond’s translators in 2024
Valentina Callari Lewis leads our Indigenous and marginalized languages team, a vast network of language practitioners working in more than 160 languages. Valentina’s teams have both experienced themselves and provided support in crisis situations …
Respond’s Arabic Team: supporting asylum seekers from Syria, Morocco, Libya, and Palestine
Respond Crisis Translation’s Arabic Team worked tirelessly in 2023, supporting hundreds of individuals seeking asylum and refuge, partnering with organizations on dozens of projects, as well as raising awareness around key language justice issues, throughout 2023 …
Respond’s Portuguese Team translated 56,000 words for Brazilian asylum seekers in 2023
In 2023, Respond Crisis Translation’s Portuguese Team worked on 62 cases, translated over 56,000 words, and interpreted for 61 hours. This work mostly concerned the translation of legal immigration documents.
The team also participated in a fascinating project with our partner Ashoka!
Several Haitian Asylum Seekers were Granted Asylum following interventions from Respond’s Haitian Creole Team in 2023
Respond Crisis Translation’s Haitian Creole (Krèyol) Team completed hundreds of projects in 2023 – of these, 60 were asylum and/or immigration cases. We also helped mental health professionals provide psychosocial support, worked on several projects related to …
Respond’s French Team helps clients win asylum cases in 2023
2023 has been a particularly difficult year, witnessing many upheavals and crises around the world, and the French Team, as always, has contributed to making the world a better place.
It was also a year of growth for the French Team, ending with a total of 106 linguists based in 30 countries around the world ..
Respond’s Marginalized Languages Team helped over 100,000 people access asylum information in 2023
The Less Frequent & Marginalized Languages (LFM) Team made huge strides in 2023 to uphold Respond Crisis Translation’s values in our fight against language injustices around the world, particularly for speakers of marginalized and Indigenous languages! The LFM Team is a truly global collective of language activists, with members across 86 countries representing over 100 languages!
Respond’s Spanish Team translated over 1 million words (and orally interpreted 200 hours) for refugees in 2023
Every project has a story, and most of the lives that we try to improve by providing language support are a true example of survival, resilience, and courage. Respond Crisis Translation’s Spanish Team worked on a huge variety of projects in 2023 …
Respond’s Afghan Language Team’s pro-bono asylum clinics achieve 100% success rate in 2023
The Afghan Languages Team accomplished remarkable feats in 2023.
We take pride in successfully concluding 951 projects, offering our assistance to nearly ten thousand individuals. Around the clock, we collaborated to provide language support across diverse areas such as immigration and asylum, legal matters, asylum clinics, education …
Two years after invasion, Respond’s Ukrainian translators help hundreds of Ukrainian asylum seekers, organizations
February 24, 2024, marked two years since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
Respond Crisis Translation’s Ukrainian and Russian (UA RU) Languages Team has been working around the clock since the invasion to support Ukrainian people fighting for their lives and freedom.
Interpreting for dozens of speakers of Bissa, Oromo, Lingala and other marginalized languages last month
The Less Frequent and Marginalized Languages Team works in over 96 languages and includes 371 translators. And I would like to share the Amazing Work This Team Has Been Doing in June. Here are some updates and some projects we’ve been working on this past June.
Respond’s Spanish team translated 100,000 words for asylum cases in the first half of 2023 alone
I am happy to share with you some highlights of this year as we reached the half-way mark!
So far this year, we have completed the incredible amount of 425 projects. We have translated 101,182 words, most of which were in support of Human rights and Asylum cases. We have translated 615 pages, where asylum was also our main focus area.
Respond Crisis Translation Snapshot 2022
Dear Respond Community:
The solidarity we’ve experienced throughout 2022 has blown us away. Since the beginning of the year, we’ve continued to mobilize to help Haitians and Afghans, and answered the call to support Ukrainians fleeing the war, and so many others …
Respond Newsletter Fall 2022
Dear Respond Community: Our hearts are heavy with sorrow and worry as the people of Iran rise up in protest of the Islamic Republic. We are thinking of all of our sisters and brothers and of all the oppressed. We are thinking of young women like Jina (Mahsa) Amini, our Kurdish peers, the Baha'i, Afghan refugees, and LGBTQ communities…
Haitian Creole Team Updates
The wonderful translators on our Haitian Creole team worked on several projects in June 2022. Here are some highlights:
The HC team provided oral interpretation services for Las Americas in partnership with VICE News for a piece where they interviewed Haitian asylum seekers. (Publication TBA). They also …
Newsletter January-June 2022
There is so much happening in the world that pulls us in many directions. One thing we know, the Respond community, has each other’s backs. Since the beginning of 2022 we’ve mobilized to help Haitians, Afghans, Ukrainians, and so many others.
Updates From The Respond Ukrainian & Russian Teams
The Respond Ukrainian team translated a list of urgent medications needed in Kharkiv for civilians currently being bombarded.
Newsletter-January 2022
To the incredible partners we work with--grassroots collectives and mutual aid groups mobilizing everyday to support their communities, immigration attorneys and legal assistants, educators, therapists, social workers, organizers--thank you for trusting us to partner with you in your critical work. And for the kindness and energy that make us feel so grateful and excited to continue to do this work with you everyday.