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National Down Syndrome Congress – Update February 9th 2016

09/02/2016 By Sabrina Leave a Comment

This month, we’re happy to introduce you to Linda Mora from the NGO National Down Syndrome Congress (Roswell, Georgia, United States). For more information, have a read of our interview with her. The NGO needs us again for a series of new articles to be translated from English into Spanish. Keep an eye on their website, you’ll be able to read them soon!

What else? What’s new? It has been quite busy for the past two weeks so we’re going to keep you updated today on what has been happening 🙂

The new interns have found their footing at PerMondo and Mondo Agit, you may or may not have already been in touch with them, and they are a real help for this busy beginning of the year!

First of all, various big projects are now completed and we would like to thank all of our volunteers for their hard workContinue Reading

New energy – Update January 21st 2016

21/01/2016 By Sabrina 2 Comments

Last week we told you about our new project, so now we’ll you a bit more about it.

What’s new this week?

First of all, we’d like to share with you that we have new interns (great new energy!), so you will most probably be in touch with them soon. They will be involved in getting to know Mondo Agit and work actively with PerMondo, as well as translating and proofreading heaps of documents. The three girls are from France (Pauline Junca), Germany (Verena Müller) and Spain (Carolina Bermejo Lingres) and they have just survived their first week with us!

The project for the NGO Task Forces on Systemic Pesticides is still underway and has just got even bigger! We had some problems with the Italian translation and had to search for a new translator. With Chinese we also had some troubles, but one very friendly girl has decided to translate further parts, so now we are waiting on the last one. We’d now like to seize the moment and thank our volunteers:

Valentina Zacarelli, Ilaria Celestini, Anastasia Giardinelli, Cinzia Turrini, Serena Mariucci, Isabel Zapata, Sofía Monzón, Carolina Fernández, Clara Montaruli, Davinia Megías, Alejandro González López, Elena Zotova, Pavel Karpov, Lena Filipcic and Caroline Chan.Continue Reading

Beginning 2016 – Update January 12th 2016

12/01/2016 By Sabrina Leave a Comment

What’s been happening since the beginning of 2016?

We started the New Year with a brand new idea: keeping you updated about what’s been happening at PerMondo in the most dynamic way.

Our idea is to post a blog entry every week or two, telling you what new projects are going on, what requests we’ve received from NGOs and especially to acknowledge your priceless help to make this world a better place. For previous projects, please visit PerMondo projects (classified by years).

Well, there are of course still some projects underway from last year, i.e. Task Forces on Systemic Pesticides. This has been quite a difficult project because of the terminology (as the name suggests – yes, it’s about pesticides), because of the desired language combinations – English into Italian and Spanish, as well as into Russian and Chinese – and the scale: 9,580 words (so a few translators have been and are still involved). Spanish and Russian have been delivered, but we are still waiting on some final documents for Italian and Chinese. We’ll acknowledge all the volunteers once all the translations have been sent to the NGO. But on our website (credits) you can already find some namesContinue Reading