Impact Report 2018 StreetwiZe • Mobile School

Educational Materials in two new languages
01/01/2018 • 30/12/2018
Sander Degeling
Clement Silungwe
Nadia Pierre Louis
Typeface
2 new translations
In 2018, Mobile School decided to invest in
two new translations to offer our educational
materials to partners in two new partners
countries.
In August, a mobile school project was started
up in the Malawian capital Lilongwe. Before the
shipment of the mobile school, all our educational
materials were translated into Chichewa,
the dominant local language spoken by about
12 million native speakers in Malawi, Zambia,
Zimbabwe and Mozambique.
new Creole panels will leave Belgium before the
end of the year to make sure they arrive safe and
sound in Port-au-Prince before the start of the
implementation trainings.
Malawi / Haiti
Since it wasn’t easy to find Chichewa speakers
in Belgium who were willing and able to
assist in the translation process, the people of
our partner Chisomo Children’s Club in Malawi
invested a lot of time in translating. In collaboration
with our supplier Typeface, the translations
were added to the educational panels.
IMPACT
All panels translated to Chichewa and Haitian Creole
After finishing the translation process into
Chichewa, a second translation project was
Potential to implement more mobile schools in these countries
A qualitative set of educational panels for the local partner
started to prepare the implementation of a
new mobile school in the Haitian capital Portau-Prince
in February 2019. Together with the
local partner, the Mobile School team decided
to translate the educational panels into Haitian
Creole, a French-based creole language
spoken by 10–12 million people worldwide,
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