<h1 style="text-align: center;">Happy International Translation Day 2017</h1>
<p style="text-align: center;">On this very special day that is September 30<sup>th</sup>, Lexcelera would like to thank all the translators and interpreters around the world who have been working with our team to take down language barriers!
Last year we wrote about the origins of International Translation Day. This year, we will focus on how translation benefits the world.</p>

<h2 style="text-align: center;">Translators without Borders
on International Translation Day 2017</h2>
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<strong>As many of you already know, Lexcelera founded Translators without Borders (Traducteurs sans frontières) in 1993 to lend a helping hand to humanitarian organizations such as their namesake, Doctors without Borders (Medecins sans frontières). </strong>

<strong>Today, volunteer translators around the world  </strong>

As Eyewitness News pointed out, “2017 is a record-breaking year for hurricanes”. And as you already know, Harvey devastated Texas, Irma took down the islands of St. Martin and Saint-Barthélémy, and finally Maria raged on Dominica, Guadeloupe, and Puerto Rico. These crises naturally required the intervention of <a href="https://translatorswithoutborders.org/">Translators Without Borders</a>. Yes, the world has witnessed these natural disasters, but it has also responded quickly: we thank infinitely the extraordinary work of Translators Without Borders during these crises to break language barriers.

In her article "When Hurricane Warnings Are Lost in Translation," Terena Bell said:

“According to Amy Rose McGovern, Translators Without Borders’ director of External Affairs, 200 volunteers around the world are rapidly translating tweets and Facebook posts from English into Spanish, Haitian Creole, French, and both Brazilian and European Portuguese.”

Lexcelera welcomes the celerity of the Translators Without Borders’ volunteers because without translating information in times of crisis, fear and uncertainty grow quicker and right at that moment danger sets in.

<strong>Today, let us remember why translation is indispensable with a quote from George Steiner</strong>

"Without translation, we would be living in neighboring provinces in silence."
George Steiner

Thank you to all the translators in the world.