Top December 2012 interpretation project

  

Kudos to our  French, Spanish and Russian interpreters at GAVI Partners Forum held in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania 5-7 December 2012. The special session from State House Dar es Salaam conducted by President Jakaya Kikwete was a toast. Well done Marina, Andrei, Aleksander, Weru, Ernest, Michel, Ramon, Jack and yours truly, Theo.

Garden Children's Home, Nairobi, Visit

On 7 December 2012, Tamarind Linguists' Forum members joined companies in Nairobi involved in the Swedish Workplace HIV-Aids Programme to treat the kids at Garden Children's Home, Uthiru, Nairobi. Here are some photos of the lovely event.

 

  

And this is what makes us different!

At Tamarind Translations, we are driven by the following values, as a team:

Committed: We make it our business, We take responsibility, We stay one step ahead.

Customer-oriented: We make sure our customer is our top priority, We exceed the customer’s expectations, We always do that little extra.

Professional: We deliver what we promise, We maintain high ethical standards, We always finish what we start.

Teamwork: We remain committed to building a strong team driven by the four C’s: Competence, Character, Courage, Collaboration.

 

Tamarind Translations Nairobi has a team of over 900 translators in a global network. Since 2008, we have recruited over 100 translators and interpreters based in Nairobi and across African, into our global network. Tamarind Linguists' Forum, formed in March 2009, is professional peer group for the translators and interpreters aimed at promoting interaction, sharing, and occasional physical meetings. The goal is to enhance the professional standing of members, and, by so doing, promote the development of the profession and industry.

Season’s greetings from Tamarind Translations!

Another year is almost over. Thank you for choosing Tamarind Translations Ltd for your translation and conference interpretation requirements this year. We are happy of all our achievements during the year as we remain Nairobi’s professional language agency, often called upon to provide services across the region. Here are some interesting projects that we carried out recently:

·           December 2012, conference interpretation project of the year: GAVI Alliance (Geneva) Partners Forum, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. This international event attended by over 1000 delegates from all over the world. Tamarind Translations was selected from a host of local and foreign language agencies to provide Russian/English/French/Spanish interpreters, drawn from our global network. One of the session was held at the State House where Tanzanian president Jakaya Kikwete was launching Decade of Vaccines project.   

In 2012, Tamarind Translations provided interpreters at over 25 international conferences for reputable clients such as the UNDP, UNWOMEN, GAVI (Geneva), Cardino (UK, Strathmore University, Café Direct (UK), WWF, UNOPS.

·           November 2012, translation project of the year: A US company required translation into 11 East African languages for legal and engineering documents.
We selected a team of technical translators, reviewers and terminologists and within seven days we were able to deliver the 7000 words translated into 11 languages including Giriama, Kamba, Luo, Kisii, Meru, Embu, Mbeere, Turkana, Gabra, Maasai …

·           September 2012, technical translation project of the year: A leading insurance institution operating across Africa required an efficient service for translation of its annual accounts booklet from English to French, only available in PDF. Using our text extraction software we converted the pdf file into editable text while maintaining the original formatting and delivered a quality translation of the 25,000 words into French.

In 2012, Tamarind Translations translated into over 40 languages, serving reputable organizations such as Google, National Council of Law Reports, UNDP, Metropolitan, Laikipia Wildlife, African Union, UNICEF, UNODC, RECSA, Transperfect (USA), STB Scandnavia, Semantix (Sweden), Embassy of Sweden, Office of the Prime Minister - CAMPS (Kenya), African Union-IBAR