Participate in the various language support projects and activities offered by the TWB charity to humanitarian agencies, as well as to other non-profit organizations worldwide, by translating its content and also revising the translations done by the less experienced members.
Under the auspices of #TranslatorsWithoutBorders, I have participated in many projects and entities aiming at removing the language barriers hindering humanitarian work. Such projects and entities are listed hereunder.
The initiative first focuses on gathering text and speech data that can make it easier to automate marginalized languages. Using this data, TWB can build advanced technology-driven solutions for both text- and voice-based communication. This cross-industry effort brings together technologists, native speaker communities, humanitarian organizations, content creators, and donors to fund investment in language data and technology, making it useful and accessible for all.
It is part of the international emergency response system for sudden-onset emergencies. UNDAC was created in 1993. It is designed to help the United Nations and governments of disaster-affected countries during the first phase of a sudden-onset emergency. UNDAC also assists in the coordination of incoming international relief at national level and/or at the site of the emergency.
INEE is a network of more than 13,000 individual members and 130 partner organizations in 190 countries. INEE members are practitioners working for national and international NGOs and UN agencies, ministry of education and other government personnel, donors, students, teachers, and researchers who voluntarily join in the work related to education in emergencies.
The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) is an independent, humanitarian, non-profit, nongovernmental organisation. We provide assistance, protection and durable solutions to refugees and internally displaced persons worldwide.
March – April 2018
The journal of Infectious Diseases of Poverty aims to build on the “One health - One world” approach to publish original and empirical work, including scoping reviews and original articles on trans-disciplinary research to combat the infectious diseases which affect mainly the poor populations.
It builds humanitarian capacity at a global level;
It trains life-savers. it gives NGOs, aid workers and communities the skills to prepare for, respond to and recover from major disasters like earthquakes, floods, conflict and drought.
The CPMS aim to:
Establish common principles among those working in child protection;
Improve the quality of child protection programming;
Improve accountability within child protection work;
Provide a synthesis of good practice and learning to date;
Enable better advocacy and communication on child protection risks, needs and responses.