{"id":55,"date":"2016-10-19T16:22:29","date_gmt":"2016-10-19T16:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.translatorswithoutborders.org\/blog\/2016\/10\/19\/his-head-was-just-above-the-water-it-felt-like\/"},"modified":"2024-08-22T14:31:24","modified_gmt":"2024-08-22T14:31:24","slug":"twb-rapid-response-team-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/translatorswithoutborders.org\/blog\/twb-rapid-response-team-story\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cHis head was just above the water; it felt like his eyes were looking at me\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>a\u00a0TWB Rapid Response Team story<\/h4>\n<p>It has often been said that a picture paints a thousand words. For <b>Maria Bountali<\/b>, a single photograph not only painted a thousand words; it changed her life. The photograph, which accompanied an online article entitled \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/magazine-32433547\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Horrors of the Sea<\/a>,\u201d showed a desperate, exhausted refugee, and touched Maria instantly. She didn\u2019t read the article. She didn\u2019t need to because the photograph told her everything she needed to know. That is the beginning of her Rapid Response Team story.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201c<\/em>His head was just above the water; it felt like his eyes were looking at me. He was helpless. He was truly exhausted\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>At the time, Maria was struggling with her own personal issues, but she says that that the image, taken by a Spanish photographer named <a href=\"http:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/660\/media\/images\/82524000\/jpg\/_82524509_822f1928-2cf0-4917-80dd-695f5d83119e.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Juan Medina<\/a>, gave her a new perspective and changed her way of thinking. That\u2019s when she decided to look for a new volunteering opportunity. Maria comes from a family that advocates community service. Her grandmother and great grandmother were recognized for their generosity and philanthropic work, and she has observed her father, a paediatrician, offer his services for free to those in need since the 1980s. She discovered Translators without Borders (TWB), which gave her the opportunity to help people like the man in Juan Medina\u2019s photograph.<\/p>\n<h4>Joining the TWB Rapid Response Team<\/h4>\n<p><!-- more --><\/p>\n<p>Maria is now a member of TWB\u2019s Greek Rapid Response Team, translating news articles from the international and Greek media for our crisis response work. She also translates the regular <a href=\"http:\/\/www.internews.org\/our-stories\/news\/rumours-lies-refugee-crisis-information-crisis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rumours<\/a> factsheet on behalf of one of TWB\u2019s key partners, Internews.<\/p>\n<p>Maria says that this work is very satisfying for her. She understands how important it is to provide people with the right information in a language they can understand.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<i>Many violent outbreaks, and the fire at the <\/i><i>refugee settlement <\/i><i>in Moria, Greece, reportedly started because people there were very agitated due to the spread of false rumours<\/i>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Giving more people access to accurate information, by translating it into languages they easily understand, is a critical part of the work of TWB.<\/p>\n<h4>Maria&#8217;s blog<\/h4>\n<p>Maria lives in Brussels and in her spare time she maintains a blog called <a href=\"https:\/\/greatplacestoreadabook.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Great Places to Read a Book<\/a>, which combines her love of travel, reading and photography. 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For Maria Bountali, a single photograph not only painted a thousand words; it changed her life. The photograph, which accompanied an online article entitled \u201cThe Horrors of the Sea,\u201d showed a desperate, exhausted refugee, and touched Maria instantly. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/translatorswithoutborders.org\/blog\/twb-rapid-response-team-story\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;\u201cHis head was just above the water; it felt like his eyes were looking at me\u201d&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":654,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[206,203],"tags":[28,4,52,3,5,35,137,54],"class_list":["post-55","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-our-volunteers","category-rapid-responders","tag-greece","tag-languagematters","tag-refugees","tag-translation","tag-translationmatters","tag-translator","tag-voluneer","tag-volunteering"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Maria Bountali: A TWB Rapid Response Team story<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Rapid Response Team story: Maria is translating news articles from the international and Greek media for our crisis response work.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/translatorswithoutborders.org\/blog\/twb-rapid-response-team-story\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Maria Bountali: A TWB Rapid Response Team story\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Rapid Response Team story: Maria is translating news articles from the international and Greek media for our crisis response work.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/translatorswithoutborders.org\/blog\/twb-rapid-response-team-story\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Translators without Borders Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/translatorswithoutborders\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2016-10-19T16:22:29+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-08-22T14:31:24+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/translatorswithoutborders.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Maria.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"300\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"300\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Translators Without Borders\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@TranslatorsWB\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@TranslatorsWB\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Translators Without Borders\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/translatorswithoutborders.org\\\/blog\\\/twb-rapid-response-team-story\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/translatorswithoutborders.org\\\/blog\\\/twb-rapid-response-team-story\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Translators Without Borders\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/translatorswithoutborders.org\\\/blog\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/eadfd55fcdedf3bd8feded8ac5046d39\"},\"headline\":\"\u201cHis head was just above the water; 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