USA: Multilingual Emergency Preparedness Materials

18/04/2019

Thanks to Stacy Brown for sharing this:

Tornado / spring storm season has begun in the U.S. Here are some multilingual resources for safety in Arabic, Chinese, French, Haitian, Hindi, Hmong, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Somali, Spanish, Tagalog, Tongan, Ukrainian, Urdu, Vietnamese, and English. Also attached are some helpful graphics to help students and families navigate weather lingo for watches and warnings.

1.) Multilingual disaster preparedness library in case you have any trouble locating the language you need.
(http://www.redcross.org/prepare/disaster-safety-library)

2.) FEMA multilingual resources (click in the globe at the bottom of the page to choose another language)
(https://www.ready.gov/tornadoes)

3.) Red Cross/Cruz Roja emergency apps in Spanish
(https://rdcrss.org/1ov5Qmo)

4.) Tornado Safety Checklists in English & Spanish
(https://www.osha.gov/dts/weather/tornado/checklist.html)

5.) Media and handouts on tornadoes in English, Spanish, Somali, Arabic & Bosnian (https://bit.ly/2UnUUh2)

6.) Disaster Preparation & Recovery in Multiple Languages
(https://bit.ly/2Dk4An9)

LANGUAGES INCLUDED:

Arabic (العربية)
Bosnian (bosanski)
Chinese, Simplified (Mandarin dialect) (简体中文)
Chinese, Traditional (Cantonese dialect) (繁體中文)
French (français)
Haitian Creole (Kreyol ayisyen)
Hindi (हिन्दी)
Hmong (Hmoob)
Japanese (日本語)
Korean (한국어)
Modern Standard Arabic (al-ʻArabīyat ul-fuṣḥá)
Portuguese (português)
Russian (Русский)
Somali (Af-Soomaali )
Spanish (español)
Tagalog (Wikang Tagalog)
Tongan (lea faka-Tonga)
Ukrainian (українська )
Urdu (اردو)
Vietnamese (Tiếng Việt)