A Video Project Delivers Critical Health Information to Immigrants in 18 Languages
Seven Days
On the Vermont Language Justice Project's YouTube channel, you'll find a video in Ukrainian about how to pick up prescription medications and another, in Mandarin, about why energy drinks are harmful. You can learn in Nepali how to administer naloxone, the opioid overdose-reversal drug, and get tips for driving safely in the winter in Arabic.
A local social worker and a small group of translators teamed up four years ago, in March 2020, to create the videos and provide important, constantly evolving public-health information about COVID-19 to Vermonters who did not read or speak English.
Four years later, with a grant from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and an assortment of smaller contracts, the project has turned out more than 2,000 straightforward informational videos in 18 languages, covering topics from mental health to natural disasters. The public service announcements have been viewed a combined 183,000 times.