Make education accessible! Translate simple lessons into Spanish

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If you’re fluent in writing Spanish and passionate about eradicating education inequality, keep reading! Oppia is looking for someone to join our translation team to help translate our online lessons from English to Spanish, and make them accessible to Spanish-speaking students who cannot easily read English.

Please fill in this form to get started: https://forms.gle/HTCWBRixXo9gJj2o7

Who We Are

The Oppia Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit with the mission to provide high quality education to all. We do this through the creation and maintenance of our platform, Oppia (http://www.oppia.org), the coordination of our passionate contributors, and the development of critical partnerships with NGOs in the communities we aim to serve.

Even before COVID-19, students around the world were facing difficulties accessing quality education due to conflict, discrimination, lack of teacher training, and more. Now, more than ever, students need access to free, quality education to ensure that they can continue to learn even if they cannot attend school.

Where You Fit In

Millions of children are not receiving the education they deserve. Of the 61 million children worldwide who cannot attend primary school, 17 million will never step foot into a school if trends continue. And, unfortunately, even those students who are in school may not receive the effective education they need.

Our community of volunteers has created a series of story-based mathematics lessons that have proved highly engaging and effective with English-speaking students. We now want to expand the reach of these lessons by translating them into Spanish. This language is a particular focus because we already have several partners and students (typically in Latin and South America) who are interested in using our lessons, but can't easily do so because of the language barrier -- so, we are seeking help from native or native-level speakers of Spanish to translate the lessons.

Why Oppia is an Organization You Want to Work With

• Oppia has served over 1,700,000 users.
• Oppia’s current library consists of more than 20,000 lessons.
• Oppia focuses on effectiveness. Our continuous improvement process involves rigorous user testing and randomized trials to ensure we create high quality educational materials catered to the needs of our most underserved global learners.
• Oppia consists of passionate volunteers from across the globe, so our meetings are held online at flexible times.

What Our Translation Team contributes

• Adding written translations of lessons to other languages.
• Reviewing translations contributed by others to ensure that they are correct and consistent.
• Advising on barriers that students from different cultures might encounter when understanding and relating to the stories used in the lessons.

If you'd like to help, please fill in this form to get started! https://forms.gle/HTCWBRixXo9gJj2o7