During these difficult times of the pandemic, Spanish for Community remains focused on its purpose: to expand students’ linguistic skills and cultural understanding by engaging in meaningful community projects for the local and global Spanish speaking community.

We are extremely thankful to all of our students, volunteers, partners, liaisons, and supporters. Here is a quick look at some of the projects we’re currently working on:

  • Translation Projects
    • We are thrilled to announce our 2021 Translation Team, a group of professional, enthusiastic, talented, and truly generous students working on projects for the following organizations: Collingwood Neighbourhood House (CNH) (Vancouver, Canada) and Fundación Ratón de Biblioteca (Medellin, Colombia).
      • Translation Team Coordinator: Cristina Lee
      • SPAN 302 Translation Team Coordinator: Gabriela Lopez Gonzalez
  • Community Libraries  Report (local & global research)
    • SPAN 302 students
  • Talleres virtuales sincrónicos (Synchronous Virtual Workshops): Intercultural and inter-linguistic communication experience through Spanish-English interaction with students from our partner organization, Ratón de Biblioteca.
    • SPAN 302 students: English-Spanish class facilitators
    • Ratón de Biblioteca: co-facilitators Vicky & Nevir