About Us
Our language services are designed with one purpose in mind: Helping people everywhere be heard and understood. Professional and paid solutions fund low-cost and free services for refugees, immigrants and the humanitarians who support them.
Our language services are designed with one purpose in mind: Helping people everywhere be heard and understood. Professional and paid solutions fund low-cost and free services for refugees, immigrants and the humanitarians who support them.
We believe it's a human right to be heard and understood, that's why we created the world's most accessible interpretation service.
Tarjimly was founded in 2017 as a 501(c)(3) non-profit in direct response to the Syrian refugee crisis and the U.S. Muslim Ban.
During volunteer work in Turkish and Greek refugee camps, seeing the urgent need for interpreters, we launched Tarjimly after the Muslim Ban left many stranded at U.S. airports, gaining 4,000 sign-ups on day one.
Originally a Facebook Messenger bot in a few languages, we evolved to meet challenges in language diversity, data security, and scalability by creating a HIPAA-compliant mobile app.
Increasingly diverse and fluid populations have organizations across every sector struggling to communicate across language barriers, including the 76% of healthcare providers reporting inadequate access to interpretation services.
In critical communications inaccuracies stemming from a lack of circumstance-specific vocabulary can impact people’s health and legal status.
HIPAA and GDPR compliant interpreting services aren’t just a matter of ensuring key conversations are understood–they’re a legal requirement.
Getting timely language support, especially in stressful and urgent situations is a struggle that leaves organizations and individuals at risk.
We’ve built a strong network of professional interpreters for businesses and volunteer translators for refugees and the humanitarian teams that support them.
Our qualified professional translators have on average 8 years of experience or more. Volunteers that support our free services are trained in best practices and trauma-informed support for displaced people.
As a non-profit organization, all revenue goes directly back to help fund our mission of eliminating language barriers for all.
Global conflict, political unrest and climate change have ballooned the forcibly displaced community to over 100 million people. 44% of the refugee population cannot understand information they're given or communicate with people trying to help them in camps, in processing, or resettling in host countries.
Most refugees fall below the poverty line, and even in the US, 76% of medical providers report poor access to interpretation. Language barriers acutely harm refugees by restricting access, efficiency, quality and scale of support across every social sector: medical, legal/asylum, education, coordination, resettlement, trauma, employment, casework, housing, food, etc.
Humanitarians can’t do their daily job effectively, which leads to well-documented discriminatory denial of service for so many, but also critical errors, isolation, and ultimately adverse health outcomes. Eliminating these barriers has the potential for broad social impact across sectors, enabling holistic livelihood improvement for refugees to resettle, return to normalcy, and thrive.
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Tarjimly merges two core solutions: community and technology.We activate the world's 3 billion bilinguals, mostly from diaspora communities, as volunteer translators for the 100 million people in crisis. For rarer languages and sensitive scenarios, we hire and train paid bilingual refugees as translators and interpreters to create a feedback loop of economic empowerment and unparalleled coverage of 250+ language pairs.
Our technology solution uses AI/ML matching of translators to refugees and humanitarians, which lowers commitments, limits attrition, and raises the certainty of high impact - we connect the right translator for the right situation as fast as possible. Beneficiaries can live chat, conference call, submit documents, filter by gender, dialect, expertise, and more.
By providing on-demand remote language support that’s free for refugees and affordable for humanitarians, Tarjimly eliminates language barriers and dramatically improves the speed, equity, and cost-effectiveness of worldwide humanitarian support and social services.
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Tarjimly is a mission-driven organization that is committed to:
Enabling organizations to build equity across language barriers with language access services that meet their needs.
Leveraging technology to create anytime, anywhere access to professional and volunteer language services for all.
Ensuring language access services are available to all: Immigrants, refugees, asylum seekers, and the organizations who support them.
Fast, affordable, purpose-driven language services.
