Volunteering Opportunity
Remote, Flexible Time Commitment
Translation from English to Arabic, Bangla, Dari, Hindi, French, Portuguese, Spanish, Swahili, Tamil, Telugu, or Urdu
Oppia / translation-coordinators@oppia.org.
This project is not in partnership with TWB. We are just helping spread the word!
If you’re fluent in spoken and written Arabic, Bangla, Dari, Hindi, French, Portuguese, Spanish, Swahili, Tamil, Telugu, or Urdu and passionate about eradicating education inequality, keep reading! Oppia is looking for someone to join our translation team to translate our online lessons from English to these languages.
Audio and text translations are a critical way that helps low literacy learners around the world to still engage with Oppia’s text-based and low-bandwidth lessons. Oppia relies on contributions from audio translators (rather than just voice to text generated audio) to keep the stories engaging and fun. Although the above mentioned languages for the lessons are prioritized, Oppia is happy to work with anyone to translate the lessons into any language they’re familiar with.
How to sign up: By using this form - Volunteer interest form for Oppia
About Oppia
The Oppia Foundation is a nonprofit with the mission to provide high quality education to all. This is done through the creation and maintenance of the platform, Oppia (http://www.oppia.org), the coordination of passionate contributors, and the development of critical partnerships with NGOs in the communities that Oppia aims to serve.
About This Cause
Even before COVID-19, students around the world were facing difficulties accessing quality education due to conflict, discrimination, lack of teacher training, and more. However, with COVID-19 forcing everyone to stay quarantined in their own homes, students now more than ever need access to free, quality education to ensure that they can continue to learn even if they cannot attend school. 1 of 5 children today cannot attend school, and 60% of children globally are not meeting minimum proficiency levels in mathematics and literacy. The Oppia Foundation aims to solve these problems by vastly expanding access to quality education through the creation and use of our online, personalized learning platform, Oppia.
With an open-sourced software, Oppia creates engaging and effective lessons for topics in basic education that are equipped with features like audio subtitles and localized translations to specifically address the needs of low-socioeconomic learners around the world. Throughout each story-based lesson, students learn about concepts in contexts that they are familiar with, while also receiving targeted feedback to help them overcome their personal challenges or misconceptions.
What Oppia’s Translation Team contributes
- Adding written translations of lessons to other languages.
- Adding audio dubbing of lessons in other languages, to help students whose reading skills are weaker.
- Advising on any barriers that students from different cultures might encounter when understanding and relating to the stories we have written to motivate the lessons.
If you’d like to know more about this opportunity, get in touch with translation-coordinators@oppia.org.
As you can see, there are many languages required for this project. Therefore, it may take the organization some time to reply to the volunteers’ emails and inquiries. You can sign up using the form included above, and wait until you get the response. If it takes so long, you can reach out to us again to follow up with your request. 
Kindly sign up by using the form. If you’d like to know more information, you can visit Oppia’s website or send an email to their email address. All the relevant links are included above 
and this is a good question indeed 
You can contact Oppia via the email mentioned above, and ask whether this opportunity is still available in these languages 
even if we expect not to receive replies soon, we may know that it could be due to the loads of emails Oppia is receiving, but it’s worth trying! 
I invite you to apply for the opportunity that may be still available