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How Vermont's Multilingual Communities Are Providing Grassroots Translation, Resources For COVID-19

A sign with winooski school district on it.
Elodie Reed
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VPR
Winooski School District, which has been sending messages in multiple languages to the community during the pandemic.

What’s it like to navigate the COVID-19 pandemic in Vermont within a community that’s relatively new to the U.S., where English might not be spoken widely?

VPR digital producer Abagael Giles began reaching out to Chittenden County residents about COVID-19, translation and grassroots solutions in April. She reported on activists, community members and leaders, all volunteers to some degree, who have spent long hours during the heart of Vermont's lockdown to support the people around them. They provided translation, cultural interpretation and a sense of connectedness.

Read the stories and see photographs below:

Henry worked for Vermont Public as a reporter from 2017 to 2023.
Abagael is Vermont Public's climate and environment reporter, focusing on the energy transition and how the climate crisis is impacting Vermonters — and Vermont’s landscape.

Abagael joined Vermont Public in 2020. Previously, she was the assistant editor at Vermont Sports and Vermont Ski + Ride magazines. She covered dairy and agriculture for The Addison Independent and got her start covering land use, water and the Los Angeles Aqueduct for The Sheet: News, Views & Culture of the Eastern Sierra in Mammoth Lakes, Ca.
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