'Stay tuned to us': California radio providing Indigenous farmworkers with vital pandemic knowledge
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The solution to reaching Indigenous farm workers in the U.S. who are unable to fully access novel coronavirus pandemic information due to language barrier issues may start as simply as turning on the radio. CNN reports that a pair o'Stay tuned to us': California radio providing Indigenous farmworkers with vital pandemic knowledge
The solution to reaching Indigenous farm workers in the U.S. who are unable to fully access novel coronavirus pandemic information due to language barrier issues may start as simply as turning on the radio. CNN reports that a pair of radio hosts in California have used their show to help educate Indigenous migrants who make up part of the state’s farmworkers about the pandemic. Radio Indígena 94.1 FM hosts Bernardino Almazán and Francisco Didier Ulloa can do this “thanks to their ability to switch between Spanish, Mixteco and other indigenous languages.” Read more