Grant to fund translation of materials into spanish

The need to become bilingual seems to be increasing.With Hispanics making up the fastest growing minority in the United States, more and more educational tools are being geared toward both English and Spanish speakers.To help out, the Work Group for Community Health and Development at Kansas University recently received a $60,000 shot in the arm.The grant, from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, will be used to finish translating remaining Community Tool Box materials into Spanish.According to its Web site: “The Community Tool Box is the world’s largest source of free information on essential skills for building healthy communities. “Buzzwords aside, the site has a list of ways to try and galvanize communities into making changes for the better. Subjects include finding community needs, getting the issues on the public agenda and finding ways to promote the changes.”One of our goals is to translate and adapt the Community Tool Box into Spanish, Portuguese and Arabic to make it useful around the world,” postdoctoral researcher Cesáro Fernández said in a press release. “We especially want to have the Community Tool Box widely available in the Americas, where a substantial part of the population speaks Spanish.”Anyone out there able to speak two languages? How beneficial has it been for you?