Volunteers will be supporting the work of Crystal Arber & Team. They are professional EMDR therapists dedicated to improving the lives of those who have suffered PTSD acute trauma symptoms. As members of the EMDR Humanitarian Assistance Program they are offering their services to displaced Ukrainians in a two day workshop.
They require a few volunteers who are fluent in Ukrainian to attend the workshops for displaced Ukrainian families in need.
In order to allow attendees to focus on the workshop, a Volunteer Translator is needed to provide Translation support to the childcare workers caring for the attendees children, provide Translation for attendees during the group lunch break, as well as greet any visitors that arrive during the workshop to minimize interruptions to the workshop in progress. During the workshop Volunteers will provide translation Ukrainian to English and English to Ukrainian as needed.
What you will be helping with:
- Translate English to Ukrainian one sentence at a time for as needed.
- Translate Ukrainian to English one sentence at a time as needed.
- This is a translation support position only for Ukrainian children, child care workers, visitors & attendees. Childcare is not required.
- Volunteers are to log their hours after each training session they respond too.
Other Helpful Information:
- Volunteers must be fluent in Ukrainian.
- Volunteers must maintain Confidentiality of all attendees & discussion at the workshop.
- Workshop will be held in Vancouver.
- Volunteers contact information will be shared with Crystal Arber & Team.
- A Volunteer Coordinator will connect with volunteers with more information once they receive your registration for this opportunity
- Crystal Arber & Team will connect with volunteers prior to the info session to provide more information
- Lunch will be provided.
- If volunteers are no longer available to assist, please unregister from this opportunity or let coordinator know to allow new volunteers to register.
Time Commitment: up to 8 hours. This is a recurring commitment to fulfill an immediate need.
Contact: Kristin Lloyd (kristinl@uwbc.ca) if you have any questions or need help with signup.
