Danbury, CT, USA – 16 August 2016 – Community health workers who understand Arabic, Chinese or English now have access to thousands of articles on their phones, off-line for free. Translators without Borders, the Wiki Project Med Foundation and Wikimedia Switzerland have announced the launch of the Arabic and Chinese version of the offline medical […]

Danbury, CT, USA – 09 August 2016. Translators without Borders (TWB) and the Wiki Project Med Foundation are partnering to ensure that critical healthcare information reaches an estimated to 3.3 million people every month. Since the partnership began in 2012, 1,900 medical articles have been made accessible on local-language Wikipedias, with TWB providing the translations […]

Translators without Borders will be represented at the following events over the coming months. If you are attending, we would love to meet you.  

DANBURY, CT, USA – 08 July 2016. On 11 June LocWorld and KantanMT teamed up to host the Coastal Flag Challenge around Howth Peninsula, Dublin, Ireland to raise money for Translators without Borders (TWB). The hike was a resounding success thanks to TWB sponsors and supporters who raised over $6,500 for the organization. The hike […]

DANBURY, CT USA – 16 June 2016. Mirko Plitt appointed TWB’s Head of Technology. Mirko Plitt, one of the foremost experts in the industrial use of machine translation and other language technologies has joined Translators without Borders (TWB) as Head of Technology.  TWB strives to find innovative technology solutions that can help provide people with […]

DANBURY, CT USA – 12 April 2016 – Global Health Media Project and TWB collaborate on the production of videos translated into three languages that will help close the gap in knowledge of health workers based in low-resource areas. Global Health Media Project has just released seven new instructional videos that provide clinical guidance for […]

DANBURY, CT, USA – 06 April 2016 – The world’s leading non-profit translation organization, Translators without Borders (TWB), is proud to announce that Welocalize, global leader in innovative translation and localization solutions, has increased its level of commitment and support to the organization. Welocalize is now a silver sponsor of Translators without Borders. “We are […]

DANBURY, CT USA – 01 March 2016 – Translators without Borders has announced the winners of its third Translators without Borders Access to Knowledge Awards. The awards recognize individuals or organizations that have contributed outstanding work that exemplifies the organization’s mission to translate for humanity. The Access to Knowledge Awards were created in 2012 to […]

DANBURY, CT, USA – February 2016 — Translators without Borders (TWB), has received valuable program funding from the Start Network, which will allow it to increase its ongoing response to the urgent European refugee crisis in Greece and the Balkans. TWB has been operating its Words of Relief Translation Crisis Relief program in the region […]

DANBURY, CT USA – 03 February 2016 – Translators without Borders, the world’s leading non-profit translation organization, announces two new senior staff appointments, Executive Director and Director of External Affairs. This an important step in realizing the growth potential of the organization. This will be an exciting year of growth for Translators without Borders (TWB). […]

Kiswahili, also known as Swahili, is spoken by up to 150 million people throughout eastern Africa including Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Mozambique and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Nairobi, Kenya, October 21st , 2015 — Microsoft has launched Kiswahili text translation, the first African language to be supported by the company’s automatic translation […]

DANBURY, CT, USA – 8 September 2015 — Translators without Borders (TWB), the US-based charity that uses language to increase access to knowledge, has today announced organizational grant funding from The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. Recognizing the growth and success of Translators without Borders over the past five years, The Hewlett Foundation has agreed […]