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It is somewhere between 9pm and midnight, depending on where exactly my flight is right now. My rubber boots, rain gear, and TWB T-shirts are stowed in the hold; I am enjoying my second film. In a few short hours, we will arrive in Bangladesh, and the work will begin.<\/span><\/p>\n

39,000 feet above the Earth, language is not an issue. International flight attendants and travelers basically speak the same language. We all understand \u2018chicken with rice\u2019 or \u2018coffee or tea\u2019 in the few international languages needed\u2026English, German, French, maybe some occasional Arabic. And it is easy, seat back, chatting with seat mates with wildly different backgrounds, to feel comforted by the connection those few common languages bring us.<\/span><\/p>\n

It is exactly that feeling \u2013 that connection and comfort \u2013 that language often gives us.<\/strong> I have lived for years in places where the native tongue was not my own: I know the sense of warmth when someone makes the effort to speak my language. Nelson Mandela had it right when he commented on the power of language: \u201cSpeak to a man in his language, and it goes to his heart.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

When in crisis, language does even more...<\/strong><\/h4>\n

It helps on a very fundamental level, giving people in crisis the basic information they need to be safe, warm and fed. Yet millions of people, especially those who are refugees in foreign lands, must cross a language barrier every time they need basic information. They rely on others for the information they need, hoping that it is accurate and true, because they simply do not understand the language<\/strong> of those trying to help, or they are illiterate and cannot read whatever directive is provided.<\/span><\/p>\n

How often I wonder how I would handle such a situation. I know that when I get important information in the language of the country where I currently live, the time to understand and then respond is at least doubled \u2013 the effort required is so much more. And that is when I\u2019m sitting at my desk, well fed and not fearful for my life or that of my children.<\/span><\/p>\n

The clear inequity of information that holds billions of people back is what motivates me<\/strong>. It is why I work hard with my colleagues every day to build an organization that uses language to jump over barriers. And it is what has motivated me to go to Bangladesh to set up language provision for the aid organizations trying to help the more than 700,000 Rohingya refugees who have arrived in the past six weeks.<\/span><\/p>\n

Tomorrow I will be in Cox\u2019s Bazar, a place I didn\u2019t know existed until a few short weeks ago. I have a singular goal: To use language to bring a bit of comfort and help to those who have suffered too much already.<\/span><\/p>\n

Language matters: I hope you will share this journey with me.<\/span><\/p>\n

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why TWB is responding to the Rohingya refugee crisis<\/h4>\n

Over 700,000 Rohingya people have fled Myanmar to Bangladesh (in and around the beach town of Cox\u2019s Bazar) in the past two months, many of them entire families - families broken by violence. This is a complex political and humanitarian crisis, and one of the most difficult language contexts TWB has ever experienced. <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

The Rohingya population is highly vulnerable, having fled conflict and living in extremely difficult conditions. When we launched this response remotely in September, the goal was to find Rohingya translators to translate urgent materials that would help give practical but vital information to the thousands of refugees flooding across the border into a land where they did not speak the language. However, it became immediately apparent that there was very little translation capacity in Rohingya and, furthermore, that we would need to get audio and spoken Rohingya support because very few people write this language, and illiteracy levels are high. It was also too challenging to try to do this work remotely. Yet no situation we have encountered is more in need of our resources.<\/strong> <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

So we took a chance without solid funding and decided to activate Plan B, sending Rebecca to Bangladesh to try to get something set up to respond to the Rohingya refugee crisis. She will be in the country for four weeks, bringing together a community of translators and figuring out how best to enable them to provide the language link between responders and vulnerable people. She will also be working with aid organizations to ensure that language solutions are funded.\u00a0 She will be joined by Eric DeLuca,\u00a0TWB's Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning Manager, who will conduct a comprehension study in some of the numerous camps, to assess the best ways to communicate with those who are affected by this crisis.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

We will be following the team as they document their journey in Cox\u2019s Bazar to set up this response for Communicating with Communities, and we'll be providing regular updates on how they are progressing over the coming weeks.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

\"RebeccaRebecca Petras, TWB Deputy Director and Head of Innovation<\/strong><\/pre>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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