Local non-profit agency Language Services Network (LSN) continues to play a pivotal role in the fight against COVID-19, especially when it comes to reaching residents whose primary language is not English.
As part of efforts to help get more marginalized people in Fort Wayne vaccinated against COVID-19, the St. Joseph Community Health Foundation, in partnership with the Foellinger Foundation, has awarded LSN $5,000 in vaccination assistance funds. With its team of almost 70 contractors versed in 22 different languages for interpretation and 18 languages for translation, LSN has been able to help get non-English and limited-English speaking populations that have been disproportionately impacted by COVID-19 better access to information about the virus, the available vaccines, and how to get vaccinated.
“With COVID and everything with the pandemic, we have been getting more requests to do interpretation for events and translation of a lot of information about the vaccines,” says Raquel Kline, LSN’s director.