{"id":25306,"date":"2020-03-31T17:42:25","date_gmt":"2020-03-31T22:42:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indianeagle.com\/travelbeats\/?p=25306"},"modified":"2020-03-31T18:40:34","modified_gmt":"2020-03-31T23:40:34","slug":"pooja-chandrashekar-covid19-health-literacy-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indianeagle.com\/travelbeats\/pooja-chandrashekar-covid19-health-literacy-project\/","title":{"rendered":"This Indian American Harvard Student Helps non-English-speaking Immigrants Fight COVID19"},"content":{"rendered":"
A whopping 67.3 million people speak a language other than English in the United States, according to the US State of Department\u2019s 2018 stats<\/strong>. Among them are Indian immigrants who mostly speak in Hindi, Gujarati, Telugu, Bengali, Punjabi and other native Indian languages at home. Hindi, Gujarati and Telugu are the most widely spoken Indian languages in the USA.<\/p>\n
To facilitate first-hand access to every minute detail of the Novel Coronavirus pandemic for the non-English speaking populace of the US, Indian American Pooja Chandrashekar has initiated translation of the COIVD19 information into more than 30 languages including Hindi, Marathi, Telugu, Malayalam, Gujarati, Bengal, Punjabi, Urdu, and Tamil.<\/p>\n