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... but, I am sincerely asking for this Forum's help.
I need translations, about a dozen or more of them, and I need them quickly.
Someone within the catchment area of this board surely must speak, or knows of someone who does, one or more of the following languages:
Dansk (Danish), Norse (Norwegian), Soumi (Finnish), Esti (Estonian), Lativian, Lithuanian, Albanian and Maltese.
The Public Service Announcement (PSA) featured in Brody's thread earlier this month (found at the following URI: http://forum.iomfats.org/w-agora/view.php?site=forumiomfatsorg&bn=forumiomfatsorg_placeofsafety&key=1301714473 ) was financed in the main by the European Union Commission's "Progress Programme for Diversity Against Discrimination" on behalf of BeLonG To Youth Services of Ireland (belongto.org); this being significant recognition by the European Union of the importance of the anti-bullying message, and the earnestness of this little known Irish agency's worthy and valuable services to their local communities.
Like Canada's Kid's Help Phone anti-bullying, and other, PSA's (featured previously in a thread elsewhere here, and at Timmy's Personal Blog and screened a dozen or more times daily across all four Canadian Television Networks for the past 15-years) this recent commercial is gender neutral and once translated has proven to be region, language, and ethnic positive and proactive focusing as it does less on the anti-homosexual nature of bullying and more on "friendship" as a catalyst for true change amongst the attitudes of today's youth and their peers.
The World-wide Web is a powerful medium; one which is capable of disseminating to the broadest possible audience information capable of transcending innumerable barriers which might otherwise not have been previously thought possible.
In the past week more than 1100 screen-views of 30 translated and sub-titled especially prepared versions of the Irish PSA have occurred. Amazingly the largest number of these viewings have taken place in several of the previous Yugoslav Republic and now independent States; notably Macedonian and Croatia, with strong showings in Turkey, Hungary, Bulgaria, Romania, Greece, Germany, Italy, Spain and The United Kingdom, amongst others.
These are not orchestrated screen-views; rather they are viewings which have largely arisen from discreet searches using YouTube's search function, and represent individuals scattered across the globe who have sought out the information and found this particular PSA to be language-friendly in an otherwise unfriendly World.
It doesn't get any better than this folks. We are impacting change one person at a time and in some of the harshest of this World's theological and political environments; but, the momentum must continue, and the translations need to be forthcoming so that other wanting and deserving eyes and ears will too have the same equal opportunity to receive this message.
If you are able to help, or know of another who may themselves be able to, then kindly reference this earlier message of mine in Brody's originating thread:
http://forum.iomfats.org/w-agora/index.php?site=forumiomfatsorg&bn=forumiomfatsorg_placeofsafety&key=1305524957&action=view
There you will find all you, or your friends, may need to further our cause.
Ireland's BeLonG To Youth Services were notified yesterday of the availability of the translated renderings of the PSA at my YouTube Channel; later today a similar message will be sent to the European Union apprising them that, in my humble opinion, their money was exceptionally well-spent, with they, too, being provided links to my Channel.
Governments and their Agencies need to be shown that PSA's in support of Kid's Help Phone's anti-bullying campaigns, the International Stand Up Day's universal anti-bullying programme and recently BeLonG To Youth Services do have impact. I can't think of a better way to let them know than screen-views of suitably translated vidéos occurring in isolated bedrooms, or living-rooms, or schools, or libraries or whatever, in communities well outside of these PSA's originally intended markets.
If the message is truly universal, promoting diversity and equality for all, regardless of region, or language, theology or politics, then let the message be heard; and let those who finance the PSA's know their money is achieving the intended results.
Warren C. E. Austin
The Gay Deceiver
Toronto, Canada
[Updated on: Fri, 27 May 2011 08:16]
"... comme recherché qu'un délice callipygian"
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