Boeing Partners with Translation App Tarjimly to Help Break Language Barriers

A new partnership between Boeing and Tarjimly, an app-based language and translation service, has been announced in order to improve translation accessibility for refugees and immigrants worldwide.

The $100,000 multi-year investment from Boeing will assist Tarjimly in improving the app user experience and enable more than 10,000 translator connections for 5,000 refugees who require urgent language assistance. Refugees will receive humanitarian assistance twice as fast due to the rise in real-time support.

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The most user-friendly translation service in the world, Tarjimly instantly connects refugees and aid organization’s with volunteer translators in more than 120 languages. There are 30 million refugees in the world, and 44% of them are unable to comprehend information or effectively communicate with those who are attempting to assist them. Language barriers severely harm newcomers and refugees by limiting their access to services that can help them, which increases their isolation, abuse, and systemic poverty.

By utilizing Boeing’s vibrant, multilingual, and international workforce, this partnership gives Boeing staff members the chance to volunteer as translators or interpreters by taking a Tarjimly-led training course.

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In addition, Tarjimly was recently named a finalist for the Elevate Prize and received the AI for Humanity Prize from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Solve initiative.