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 […]

DANBURY, CT, USA – 17th August 2015 – The world’s leading non-profit translation organization, Translators without Borders (TWB), is proud to announce that Lionbridge Technologies, Inc, one of the charity’s founding sponsors, has increased its commitment by becoming the first Diamond Sponsor of the organization. In the four years since its incorporation as a US-based […]

“In the first nine months, if people had been given proper messages, all this could have been prevented.” That sentiment, expressed by Claudia Evers, MSF Ebola emergency coordinator, Guinea, late in the Ebola epidemic speaks to the crisis of information that permeated the Ebola response. The epidemic killed more than 10,000 people in three countries […]

DANBURY, CT, USA – 23rd July 2015 — Translators without Borders (TWB), has released the findings  of an Impact Study on Ebola Information entitled ‘Does Translated Health-Related Information Lead to Higher Comprehension? A Study of Rural and Urban Kenyans’. The results of this study, demonstrate just how important it is to have crucial healthcare information […]

DANBURY, CT, USA – 29th April 2015 – The world’s leading non-profit translation organization, Translators without Borders (TWB), has mobilized translation specialists to help provide humanitarian assistance following the massive earthquake in Nepal. According to the latest report by the United Nations (UN), eight million people have been affected by the earthquake, of which over […]

(DANBURY, CT USA – 4 August 2014) – Translators without Borders (TWB) reports that the organization has assisted the Center for Disease Control (CDC) to provide critical preventative information on the Ebola virus in local West African languages as well as French. The local language fact sheets are being used by the CDC to fight […]