The Hoja Project was set up as a UK registered charity in 2005 and since 2013 has now run under the charity registration of COCO (Comrades Of Children Overseas). COCO has supported Hoja since the very early days, so this represents no real change in the day-to-day operation of Hoja.

COCO's webpage on Hoja can be found here, and they regularly produce news on all their projects. This blog is updated on a volunteer basis, so new posts tend to be every few months.

Wednesday, 1 June 2011

WANTED! Swahili to English Translators

Hello all.

This is a video of someone who received a loan from us to start an Income Generation Project (IGP).


For Translation - Hoja IGP Tailor from Phil Hatchard on Vimeo.

There's just one problem with it. It's in Swahili. In fact, I have an awful lot of video footage from Tanzania that's yet to be translated. It turns out hunting down people to translate videos from Swahili into English is harder than I thought.

But I've already tracked down one person to help me, through the Translations for Progress website, and I shall need to find a few more.

So if anyone out there thinks they might be able to push this blog post in the direction of someone who can help, please do. The more, the merrier, as it were.

All the videos can be found at vimeo.com/evilflea/videos, and start with the words "For Translation". Some are shorter, some are longer, and however much time you can afford to give, is more than welcome.

All a translator needs to do is get started, and let me know which video they're starting to translate, by emailing uk@hojaproject.org, so I can change the video description to stop anyone else doing it.

Translations should be as accurate as possible, with the odd time marker so I know where to subtitle.  My Swahili's okay to generally follow what's being said, so you don't need to go completely mad with time markers - just enough so I don't get completely lost.

Many thanks in advance!

Phil

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