Americans Against Language Barriers
Why Volunteer?
By volunteering for charities that provide essential services for free, our trained interpreters and translators are helping improve the quality of life of those with language barriers. Click here to learn more about our partnered organizations.
How Does it work?
What volunteers do:
Based on their skills and experience, volunteers can be interpreters, translators, both. Interpreters & translators both act as conduits of meaning between two parties that do not speak the same language; and interpreter uses spoken language (or signed) and a translator uses written language.
As a volunteer interpreter, you will be called upon to remotely help an English-speaking individual properly communicate with a limited-English individual. As a translator, you will help translate written information from English into a non-English language or vice versa.
What are the requirements to be a volunteer?
- A minimum of 40-hours of interpreter training
- Experience as a professional interpreter
- Dual-language proficiency
- A cell phone OR a computer with a high-quality microphone, camera & stable internet connection
What is the commitment?
None! You can always deny a volunteer request, no questions asked. When you apply to volunteer, you will select the maximum number of appointments you would like per month, we will never exceed that.