Services

ICVolunteers works with volunteers and professionals who speak 155 languages. Its language project encompasses the following services and projects:

Translation and interpretation: ICVolunteers recruits and coordinates volunteer translators and interpreters. They are generally student interpreters or young professionals who wish to gain experience.  ICVolunteers offers both simultaneous and consecutive volunteer interpretation.

Community interpreting - Language and Migration Project: Provide linguistic written and oral services to immigrants recently arrived in Spain, Switzerland, France and South Africa by establishing a link between structures that insure services for the newly arrived. Constitute a network of volunteers of the same origin who are of the same origin as the immigrants in need. Mediation, translation and interpretation, accompanying. ICVolunteers has carried out two studies about the situation of migrants and language services offered to them. The studies focus on the situation in Geneva - Switzerland and Barcelona - Spain. A similar study is planned for France, as well as Brazil.

World Network for Linguistic Diversity - Maaya: ICVolunteers currently hosts the secretariat of the network, which currently brings together 3 international organizations, 4 intergovernmental and governmental organizations, 18 non-governmental organizations all focusing on issues related to languages and linguistic diversity. For more information, see www.maaya.org.