Our story and mission
Chiwara Language Solutions was built around a simple observation: the African languages hospitals, courts, and schools need most are the hardest to find qualified interpreters for.
Closing a gap that shouldn’t exist
Chiwara Language Solutions is a remote-first interpreting service built for a specific, persistent problem: organizations that are legally required to provide language access — hospitals, courts, immigration attorneys, schools, and social-service agencies — regularly struggle to find qualified interpreters in African languages like Bambara, Pulaar/Fula, Wolof, Soninke, and French.
Large interpreting agencies tend to staff the languages with the biggest, most obvious demand. That leaves a real gap for the growing African diaspora worldwide — and for the institutions trying, in good faith, to serve them.
We built Chiwara to close that gap directly: connecting qualified, screened interpreters with the organizations that need them, delivered entirely remotely by phone and video, wherever they are. No on-site coordination, no scheduling headaches — just a reliable way to get an interpreter who speaks the right language, when it matters.
What guides how we work
Access
Language shouldn’t be the reason someone can’t get care, justice, or an education.
Accuracy
In medical, legal, and education settings, precision isn’t optional — it’s the whole job.
Dignity
Every person deserves to be understood clearly, and to speak for themselves in their own words.
Confidentiality
What’s shared through an interpreter stays private, every time, without exception.
Community
We’re building for the African diaspora communities we serve, and the interpreters who are part of them.
Our commitment to language access law
Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits discrimination on the basis of national origin by recipients of federal funding — which the U.S. Department of Justice has long interpreted to include meaningful access for individuals with limited English proficiency (LEP).
Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act extends similar protections specifically to health programs and activities, requiring covered healthcare entities to provide qualified language assistance to LEP patients at no cost to the patient.
Chiwara helps hospitals, courts, schools, and social-service agencies meet these obligations with qualified, screened interpreters delivered remotely. We support your compliance efforts — we don’t replace your organization’s own responsibility to understand and meet its legal language-access requirements.
Let’s work together
Whether you need an interpreter or want to become one, we’d love to hear from you.