There are 30 million refugees worldwide, and 44% can't understand the information they're given or communicate with people trying to help them, whether they are in camps, in processing, or resettling in host countries. Most refugees fall below the poverty line and have little access to basic necessities and social services. Language barriers acutely harm refugees by restricting access, efficiency, quality, and scale of humanitarian support across EVERY social sector - medical, legal/asylum, education, coordination, resettlement, trauma, employment, casework, housing, food, etc. This leads to denials of service, critical errors, and increased exposure risk to threats, abuse, and isolation. Therefore solving it has the potential for widespread social impact which will help refugees resettle and return to normalcy. NGOs have limited language support because of high costs associated with hiring translators and erratic funding.

Tarjimly merges two core solutions: community and technology. Their community solution activates the world's 3 billion bilinguals, mostly from diaspora communities, to volunteer as on-demand translators for the 30 million refugees in crisis. Their technology solution delivers interpretation and translation in 80+ languages using efficient ML matching of volunteers to refugees, which lowers commitments, limits attrition, and raises the certainty of high impact and optimal fit. Beneficiaries can live chat, conference call, integrate with zoom, submit documents, filter by gender, dialect, unique expertise and more.