Natakallam

Globally, 120+ million refugees and displaced individuals struggle to achieve economic stability and social integration due to limited access to meaningful work opportunities. NaTakallam (“We Speak” in Arabic) is an award-winning, social enterprise that provides remote income opportunities in language tutoring, translation, and cultural exchange, leveraging displaced individuals’ linguistic and cultural expertise to connect them with learners and organizations globally. Our services include translation and interpretation, group and individual online language teaching and tutoring and storytelling and cultural competency sessions in academic, corporate and NGO settings. NaTakallam creates a pathway to sustainable income amidst conflict as well as during or after displacement and in the early stages of resettlement. To date, NaTakallam has enabled displaced, conflict-affected and individuals from the Global Majority to self-generate more than $4.5 million in income. NaTakallam’s 780+ tutors and translators have worked with individual users in 110+ countries, as well as 300+ companies, organizations, and universities. Institutional partners and clients include universities such as Yale, Columbia, and Georgetown, and organizations such as the Save the Children, World Bank Group, Women Deliver, International Rescue Committee and the OECD. Learn a language, Change a Life. Join us at