Haitian Creole Translation for Education

Translation Community

Our Haitian Creole translation community starts with Haitian Americans helping Haitians now rearchitecting education for a new Haiti. We began in NYC and Boston Crisis Camps in January 2010, but all are welcome to join, recruit Creole speakers you know, advance long-term solutions around Education in Haiti, contact authors/publishers with open hearts, and start translating!

Join our Collaboration Space:

• http://NewHaitiProject.ning.com/group/onelaptopperchildwaveplaceproject
• http://TheNewHaitiProject.com

News/Blogs

• Carmina's Blog: http://RaiseHaitiUp.com
• OLPC Volunteer Community Blogs: http://planet.laptop.org
• John Engle Video Blog, examining schools live/daily from Haiti: http://www.haitipartners.org/the-blog/
• Susie Krabacher - Giving Hope and Dignity to the Children of Haiti: http://www.haitichildren.com/latest-news/
• Tim Falconer: http://Waveplace.org/blog and http://twitter.com/waveplace
• One Laptop per Child ongoing Haiti updates: http://laptop.org/haiti

Mailing Lists

OLPC-HAITI Public Discussion, focused on Creole especially:
http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-haiti (almost 70 subscribers already, as of Feb 1)

General translation/software discussion:
http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/localization

Legacy Kreyol list:
http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/kreyol

Start Translating Here!

• http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/olpc-haiti/2010-January/000075.html
• http://newhaitiproject.ning.com/group/onelaptopperchildwaveplaceproject/forum/topics/project-list
• http://YeleSurvivors.org

Books We Want (even if not yet fully licensed)

John & Geraldine should help expand this list very quickly...initial forays now underway include:

• New York Regents Exam excerpts John suggests -- permission needs to be investigated: http://www.ngohaiti.com/relief/education/
• [UPDATE] Educa Vision has submitted catalog and has given permission to use any material copyrighted by its publishing house - will upload shortly: http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/olpc-haiti/2010-February/000080.html

Permission has been given to use below Kreyol stories translated by Allendy Doxy. Most are public domain (good!), still need to get permission for the DAISY STORIES (to come)

• DAISY MACBETH - DAISY STORIES

http://web.archive.org/web/20060903161852/www.lonweb.org/daisy/ds-creole-macbeth.htm

• THE HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT BY RANDOLPH CALDECOTT

http://web.archive.org/web/20080116231750/www.letspeak.com/Krikkrak1.htm

• LITTLE BO PEEP BY L. LESLIE BROOKE

http://web.archive.org/web/20061015015129/www.letspeak.com/krikkrak13.htm

• ONE TWO BUCKLE MY SHOE - NURSERY RHYME

http://web.archive.org/web/20061015015120/www.letspeak.com/krikkrak2.htm

• WHO IS SYLVIA? (FROM SHAKESPEARE'S TWO GENTLEMAN OF VERONA ACT IV, SC II)

http://web.archive.org/web/20061015015151/www.letspeak.com/krikkrak6.htm

• SHALL I COMPARE THEE SONNET BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

http://web.archive.org/web/20061015015116/www.letspeak.com/krikkrak3.htm

• THE FLEA AND THE PROFESSOR BY HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN

http://web.archive.org/web/20061015015059/www.letspeak.com/krikkrak7.htm

• THE SEARCH FOR LORNA - DAISY STORIES

http://web.archive.org/web/20060927144614/www.lonweb.org/daisy/ds-creole-lorna.htm

• THE SURPRISE - DAISY STORIES

http://web.archive.org/web/20060903061342/www.lonweb.org/daisy/ds-creole-surprise.htm

AUTHORS/PUBLISHERS interested in donating any learning content to OLPC/similar educational efforts in Haiti, please contact: holt @ laptop.org, gzephirin @ lycos.com

Important Translation Resources

• http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Haitian_Creole_Translation_for_Education
• http://wiki.crisiscommons.org/wiki/Languages_and_Translation
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haitian_Creole_language
• Phrases: http://www.travelinghaiti.com/haitian_kreyol.asp
• Older OLPC Haiti approach: http://olpchaiti.org/interne/haitian_creole.php http://olpchaiti.org/interne/

People

Carmina - volunteer coordination
Geraldine - publisher relations
John - curator, organizing quality texts
Hans - coloring book/content/code/web designer
Marilyn - Crisis Camp collaboration coordination
Adam - OLPC Support/Community Coordination (holt @ laptop.org)
Tim - Waveplace.org in-school needs assessment
Allison - church outreach/audio books/Twitter forthcoming
(many others not listed, we'd love to talk to you on our mailing list & collab-space above!)