Employment and Education Opportunities

Language Factory, Infoxchange's community translating and interpreting enterprise, has given many recent migrants and public housing residents employment and education opportunities. As well as undertaking interpreting tasks on a needs basis, Language Factory is connecting people to formal training and enhancing the career prospects of low income earners.
 

Kumlachew Bisrat is a project officer at Infoxchange who also does Amharic community interpreting work with Language Factory. "Recently, Language Factory helped me to find a scholarship called the 'New Interpreters Project’, a two day workshop organised by NAATI (National Accreditation Authority for Translators and Interpreters)," Kumlachew says. "This is preparing me for a test to be an accredited interpreter/translator, and soon I will be among the first group of accredited interpreters/translators in my native language."