Can you speak/write in English and Spanish? Do you want to help address street harassment? Here’s a perfect volunteer opportunity for you, if so!
This summer, we’ll be partnering with the Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network (RAINN) and Defend Yourself (DY) to launch the first-ever national street harassment hotline. The hotline will be offered 24/7. As part of the set-up, DY and I am preparing materials that will be used by RAINN’s staff when they take calls. Because the hotline will be offered in both Spanish and English, we need to translate some of our materials into Spanish for the RAINN staff to use with Spanish-speaking callers.
There are about a dozen web pages or articles that would need to be translated into Spanish by June 15. Here are three examples:
https://stopstreetharassment.org/about/what-is-street-harassment/ | https://stopstreetharassment.org/strategies/moment/ | https://medium.com/@hkearl/five-reasons-why-street-harassment-is-serious-15221720f1b7
Let me know if you would have any time in the next 2.5 weeks and be willing to translate one or two (or more) of these items. It would be a huge, huge help. And not only will the translated information be used to help the hotline callers, but it will be posted on the SSH website period, so Spanish speakers coming to the website would be able to gain more information than they can currently because of your help.
In return, I’ll list you in an acknowledgements section on the forthcoming hotline page and also send you some SSH swag in the mail as a thank you!
You can contact me at hkearl @ stopstreetharassment . org. Thanks! – Holly
