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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!

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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.

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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 ..

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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!

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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 …

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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…

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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 …

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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.

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Andrea Vargas Andrea Vargas

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.

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