When COVID-19 hit, federal and state health agencies issued regular warnings which were typically only in English. Seeing the need to share critical information among more people, the Vermont Language Justice Project was started. They now make public service videos in more than a dozen languages. Vermont Public’s Elodie Reed reports on how the program has become a vital program, which now faces budget cutbacks.
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