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Translating Medical Documents to Protect Ukrainian Patients’ Right to Language Access
Over the past year, the Ukrainian team has translated medical documents for over fifty Ukrainian refugees with a wide range of conditions. These refugees all fled Ukraine to different countries, including England, Scotland, Poland, Czechia, Germany, Sweden, and France, due to the full-scale invasion (war) in February 2022.
Inside our work translating for Ukrainian refugees
Respond Crisis Translation Ukrainian and Russian teams have worked tirelessly around-the-clock since the start of the war on Russia in 2022. In this video, the head of our Ukrainian and Russian teams Tetyana Grygor'yeva shares her powerful experience leading this work
In 2022, We Responded to One of the Biggest Crises of the Year: the War in Ukraine.
At Respond, we are providing language support to Ukrainian refugees, and to thousands of asylum seekers, refugees, and other individuals from around the world in violent systems that refuse to provide them the support they need.
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.
days one and two
by Ada Wordsworth
I have now spent two full days on the Polish/Ukrainian border. To be honest, I can’t remember two more tiring or emotionally draining days – but that’s no surprise. My respect for people who work with displaced people full time, already high, has shot up even higher….
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….
Translating Ukraine’s most ¨taboo¨ news stories
Respond Crisis Translation is excited to partner with Zaborona Media, a Ukrainian “new media” outlet to ensure English-language access to untold stories coming from Ukraine and throughout eastern Europe and Central Asia. Zaborona (the Ukrainian word for “taboo”) is a ground-breaking news outlet…