Afrilingual, a worker-owned cooperative, aims to improve the offerings of New York City's agencies’ required language services — while providing local immigrants with well-paying jobs.
Make your contribution now and help Gothamist thrive in 2023.Mamadou Diallo isn’t always the first interpreter that his asylee clients speak to.
Diallo, 45, from Senegal, is a founding member of the African worker-owned cooperative Afrilingual, which aims to improve the offerings of city agencies’ required language services – while providing local immigrants with well-paying jobs. Accurate and accessible information and services is a matter of life and death for individuals, and a public health imperative for all of us.The co-op will compete with out-of-state companies ranking in the lion’s share of city contracts for translation and interpretation services, worth some $13 million in 2019 and $21 million in 2020, according tofrom the Independent Budget Office.
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