None spoke and interpreters assisted all three throughout.
A total of 325 cattle herders were surveyed in this study, and interpreters assisted with administering the surveys in the native languages of the participants: Fulfulde, Arab Shuwa, Moundang, Mandara, Mafa, Kanuri, Guiziga, Mufu,Toupouri, Mada, Zoulgo, Kourgui, Bornoi, and Musgum.
Trained interpreters assisted with these interviews.
Arabic or Farsi interpreters assisted at all sessions.
Interpreters assisted patients with completion of the questions when necessary.
One recent day, while Captain Halstead discussed the transition with Lt. Bismillah, the executive officer of an Afghan infantry company, Shahidullah, the Afghan interpreter assisting the conversation, reprised local history.
We held two groups in English, for patients from a range of backgrounds (including Anglo Celtic but also other ethnic backgrounds) and one group each in Turkish and Arabic, facilitated in English with an interpreter assisting, to ensure we included patients from these two largest non-English speaking communities in the study area.
An interpreter assisted with practices and games.
An interpreter assisted with four non-English speaking interviewees in the first round of interviews.
An interpreter assisted the sampling collection, since the majority of participants expressed themselves in local languages/dialects, and most of them could not read or write in official language(s).
"But we still find on Election Day that poll workers block interpreters from assisting voters, translated materials are not available to voters, poll workers make hostile or disparaging or racist remarks and they misdirect voters to the incorrect polling sites and election districts".
