Volunteers will be supporting the work of Service Canada. Staff at Service Canada require a few volunteers who are fluent in Ukrainian to attend a Service Clinic for displaced Ukrainian families.
Service Canada employees along with multiple other organizations will need the support of translators to assist Ukrainians with signing up for their services at the clinic. Volunteers are needed to translate English to Ukrainian verbally at their assigned station. Questions from Ukrainian speakers attending the clinic will need to be translated to English for the Employees of each organization.
What you will be helping with:
- Translate English to Ukrainian/Russian one sentence at a time as employees at your station
- Translate Ukrainian/Russian to English one sentence at a time as needed when Ukrainian attendees have questions for employees
- Translate English to Ukrainian/Russian one sentence at a time as needed when Employess are responding to Ukrainian attendees questions
- Volunteers are to log their hours after each training session they respond too.
Other Helpful Information:
- Volunteers must be fluent in Ukrainian and or Russian.
- Volunteers contact information will be shared with a Service Canada Coordinator
- A UWBC Coordinator will connect with volunteers prior to the Service Clinic to provide more information
- If volunteers are no longer available to assist, please unregister from this opportunity or let coordinator know to allow new volunteers to register.
- Parking is available onsite
Time Commitment: 2.5 to 3 hours hours. This is a recurring commitment to fulfill an immediate need. You may sign up for one or more shifts.
Contact: Kristin Lloyd (kristinl@uwbc.ca) if you have any questions or need help with signup.
