Haitian Creole Translation of Refugee Applicant Welcome Guide
Preferred learners
- Canada
- Academic experience
Categories
Skills
Project scope
- What is the main goal for this project?
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Thaumazo is a nonprofit focused on bringing people together to ideate, create and document projects aimed at the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
Welcome Collective is an organization whose core mission is to mobilize Montreal’s local community to provide immediate help to the city’s most precarious refugee claimants.
Thaumazo is working with Welcome Collective to translate their Welcome Guide into Haitian Creole.
This work fits under UN Sustainable Development Goal 10: Reduced Inequalities. The goal aims to reduce inequalities within and among countries, including providing safe and legal migration opportunities, protecting refugees, and promoting the social, economic, and political inclusion of all, regardless of their background.
- What tasks will learners need to complete to achieve the project goal?
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The student will:
- Help prepare and review various automated translations of key material into Haitian Creole
- Select the best starting points, and complete translation of material into Haitian Creole
- Work with our team to improve the process & workflow for translation
- What is the main goal for this project?
-
Thaumazo is a nonprofit focused on bringing people together to ideate, create and document projects aimed at the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
Welcome Collective is an organization whose core mission is to mobilize Montreal’s local community to provide immediate help to the city’s most precarious refugee claimants.
Thaumazo is working with Welcome Collective to translate their Welcome Guide into Haitian Creole.
This work fits under UN Sustainable Development Goal 10: Reduced Inequalities. The goal aims to reduce inequalities within and among countries, including providing safe and legal migration opportunities, protecting refugees, and promoting the social, economic, and political inclusion of all, regardless of their background.
- What tasks will learners need to complete to achieve the project goal?
-
The student will:
- Help prepare and review various automated translations of key material into Haitian Creole
- Select the best starting points, and complete translation of material into Haitian Creole
- Work with our team to improve the process & workflow for translation
- How will you support learners in completing the project?
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The student will have access to our Thaumazo slack workspace,
The student will be in contact with both a Thaumazo director and a representative from Welcome Collective, able to answer questions and provide guidance.
About the company
- http://thaumazo.org/
- Non-profit, philanthropic & civil society
Charitable Purpose:
To address global challenges (as outlined by the United Nations’ 17 Sustainable Development Goals), by initiating, facilitating and encouraging collaborative projects, by creating, collecting and curating technical and informational resources and by building and facilitating community for the benefit of humankind.
Mission
Our mission is to provide support to people passionate about working to make the world better - in their personal growth, their professional skills, experience and network, and their projects and opportunities to creatively bring their passion to bear on practical work in the world.
Our work is to make it ever easier for people of any age, background, skillset and domain of interest to work successfully and in the way they choose to improve their world.
This mission is accomplished through resources, community, partnerships and projects.