REMARKS
Haitian response initiative and investment in Haitian Creole resources
1:41:07
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Lorena Lucero from MOIA provides information about the Haitian response initiative and investments made in Haitian Creole resources.
- An $8,800,000 investment was made for legal services and development of resources in Haitian Creole
- The initiative involved hiring linguists and working with community-based organizations serving the Haitian community
- This response was prompted by arrivals from Haiti to New York City
- The initiative includes support for legal services
- The focus was primarily on legal and community services, not specifically on medical settings
- MOIA's efforts were mainly within the legal realm and community support, as part of the Haitian response initiative
Lorena Lucero
1:41:07
They have worked with the city particularly with the recent response and providing support in interpretation, translation and interpretation for languages of West West African languages.
1:41:21
So from for so ICP and then refugee translation project, which has done this work previously, So that's one part that's not particularly with Haitian Creole, but with Haitian Creole, in what Ken mentioned, through our Haitian response initiative, there was very very intentional investment that was made.
1:41:45
I believe it's 8,800,000 for legal services and development of resources that are done and provided in Haitian Creole.
1:41:54
Hiring linguists working with community based organizations that were working with this particular community.
1:42:01
And this, of course, was as a response to arrivals of of that country into the city of New York.
1:42:08
And also in supporting them with some legal services.
Alexa Avilés
1:42:12
Right.
1:42:12
But it doesn't it doesn't extend to, like, the medical setting.
1:42:16
This is people that are going to nonprofits who are getting, you know, services and enrolled in things that they need, but medical setting?
Lorena Lucero
1:42:27
No more medical settings, I can't really speak to.
1:42:29
I don't know if can, if you have more background on that particular, but within what we have done, within the legal realm and what Moia has led, we can refer to the Haitian response initiative.
