{"id":194,"date":"2012-02-20T11:15:00","date_gmt":"2012-02-20T11:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.translatorswithoutborders.org\/blog\/2012\/02\/20\/want-to-end-poverty-and-save-lives-translate\/"},"modified":"2024-08-22T14:35:03","modified_gmt":"2024-08-22T14:35:03","slug":"want-to-end-poverty-and-save-lives-translate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/translatorswithoutborders.org\/blog\/want-to-end-poverty-and-save-lives-translate\/","title":{"rendered":"Want to End Poverty and Save Lives? Translate!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During all those years I spent \u201c<a title=\"Almost Giving Blog\" href=\"http:\/\/lori4twb.wordpress.com\/2010\/12\/07\/almost-giving\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">almost giving<\/a>\u201d I imagined myself serving food in a refugee camp, or teaching children in an orphanage. I never dreamed that my own\u00a0<em>m\u00e9tier<\/em>\u00a0\u2013 translation \u2013 could actually be a key to ending poverty and saving lives.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The thing is, knowledge is incredibly powerful. Knowledge ensures better health and longer lives, it reduces maternal mortality, it empowers women, it saves children from dying unnecessarily, it improves economic opportunities, it lifts people out of poverty, it encourages protection of the environment\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Oh wait, aren\u2019t those the\u00a0<strong>Millennium Development Goals<\/strong>?<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Translation is essential to meeting all eight Millennium Development Goals by 2015.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><a title=\"Translators without Borders\" href=\"http:\/\/translatorswithoutborders.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Translators without Borders<\/a>\u00a0is supporting the Millennium Development goals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u00a0Few people make this connection, but in fact, without translation how can there be global access to knowledge? 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Our goal is to take down the language barriers to information so that people in the developing world will have access to the same information we do. To make global knowledge local \u2013 and to make local knowledge global.<\/p>\n<p>There is so much good we can do. Please join us.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During all those years I spent \u201calmost giving\u201d I imagined myself serving food in a refugee camp, or teaching children in an orphanage. I never dreamed that my own\u00a0m\u00e9tier\u00a0\u2013 translation \u2013 could actually be a key to ending poverty and saving lives. The thing is, knowledge is incredibly powerful. Knowledge ensures better health and longer &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/translatorswithoutborders.org\/blog\/want-to-end-poverty-and-save-lives-translate\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Want to End Poverty and Save Lives? 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