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The Family Centre (Familjecentrum) in Sweden, required a Tigrinyan voice-over for their introductory video to help welcome immigrant families and their children. Familjecentrum is government funded, and offers parents and their children a place to talk to other parents and seek advice from councillors. It also gives them opportunities to make friends in the community.
In the UK it is quite difficult to find Tirginyan actors, so we recorded via ISDN with Mewael – a voice talent based in Africa. We then cleaned & edited the voice-over, and the client laid it back to the video themselves.Region Östergötland is a Swedish health care company that have made a breakthrough in discoveries related to the HIV disease. They created a video to promote a specialised medicine that means people with HIV can live a full and normal life.
They wanted to reach out to health care companies outside of Sweden, and decided to localise the video in a variety of languages including Tigrinya. They required a native Tigrinya female voice over artist. Amira was selected due to her warm and welcoming manner.
Amira recorded the script time-sync to video to match up with the original video at the correct time points. The video was used to create health care partners in Eritrea and improve the lives with those with HIV.
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There are significant Tigrinya-speaking communities in Sudan, Uganda, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Germany, Italy, Sweden, the UK, Canada, Australia and the United States.
Did you know…
The Eritrean and Ethiopian economies
The Eritrean economy has faced significant problems, such as the legacy of 30+ years of war and chronic drought. As with many other African nations, a large proportion of the population (nearly 80%) is engaged in subsistence farming.
However, the country’s economy has experienced a fast growth rate in recent years, and this is expected to continue. Eritrea has considerable natural resources including copper and gold.
The Ethiopian economy – also fast-growing – is also largely based on agriculture, which accounts for around 46% of GDP and employs 85% of the workforce.
Ethiopia is Africa’s second most populous country, and around 50% of the population is under 18. Job creation has not kept up with population growth, and this means that, despite recent improvements to the economy, Ethiopia remains one of the world’s poorest countries.
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