The whole world is fighting against the deadly Covid19 and presently the lone way to protect ourselves is to follow the precautionary advisory circulated by authorities. Unfortunately this information is available mostly in Hindi, English or the scheduled languages.

To communicate accurate and verified information regarding Covid19 amongst the smaller- marginalized communities of India, SEL started an initiative to prepare a pictorial Corona information flyer with the help of native speakers. Till date we have covered translated the flyer into over 102 languages:

• Assam – Paite, Karbi, Dimasa, Sylheti, Mising, Meitei, Bodo, Ruanglat, Liangmai, Biate, Zeme, Assamese, Nalbaria, Khelma, Hrusso, Hrangkhol, Hmar
• Arunachal Pradesh – Nocte, Ollo Nocte, Phongsung, Tai Khamti, Sertukpen Wancho, Sertukpen, Wancho, Khappa, Tutsa, Mangar
• Chattisgarh – Kurukh, Halbi, Sirgujiya, Lariya and Standard Chattisgarhi
• Himachal Pradesh – Chinali
• Jammu & Kashmir – Kashmiri, Pashto, Pahari (Srinagar), Pahari (Jammu), Gaddi, Dogri
• Jharkhand – Santali, Mundari
• Manipur – Manipuri
• Meghalaya – Khasi, Pnar
• Nagaland – Ao (Chungli), Ao (Mongsen), Rengma
• Uttarakhand – Raji, Kumauni, Bangani, Baavari, Byans, Rawalti, Parvatiya, Tolchha, Garhwali, Jaunsari, Tharu, Jad and Darma
• Other Languages – Hindi, English, Bhojpuri, Awadhi, Nepali, Urdu, Shekhawati, Bengali, Gujarati, Marathi, Kannada, Telugu, Oriya, Malayalam, Maithali, Maithali-Urdu, Punjabi, Sindhi, Konkani, Sanskrit, Punjabi

In addition to this, native speakers recorded a voiceover for an existing video on ‘how to make a mask at home’ and circulated it within their communities.

SEL would like to extend its gratitude to the coordinators, Dr. Bipasha Patagiri, Dr. Monalilongmalai, Dr, Arti Pathak, Dr. Sara Lingdoh, Prof. Aejaz Mohammad Sheikh, Prof. M.J Warsi, Dr. Bishakha, Dr. Sudhanshu Shekhar, Wincham Matina, Farooq and all the native speakers – Surendra Aryan, Ramakant Baijwal, Mahaveer Rawalta, Shanti Nabyaal, Prof. Chandra Kala, and Dr. Suresh Mamgai, Dr. Arimardan and most importantly, our team members Ajay Kumar Singh, Dr. Vishnu Kumar Singh, Dr. Satyendra Awasthi and Bharat, for coordinating this effort.