Community groups have started an initiative to make sure Montreal populations who are isolated because of language and culture, get the information they need about the pandemic.
The Côte-des-Neiges Community Development Corporation decided to broadcast the information via loudspeakers from a van, targeting the more densely populated areas of the area.
Messages are delivered in up to 13 different languages, explained Dina Husseini, a community organizer with the group. “So we have French and English, we have Yiddish, Spanish, Créole, Arabic, Urdu, Tamil, Tagalog, Vietnamese, Chinese-speaking — that is, Cantonese — we have Farsi and Russian language,” she said.