What happens when a childhood experience becomes the seed for a global movement?
In this episode of The Solve Effect, host Hala Hanna sits down with Atif Javed, co-founder and Executive Director of Tarjimly, a nonprofit that connects tens of thousands of volunteer translators with refugees and displaced people worldwide.
From interpreting for his grandmother as a child immigrant to building a tech-enabled platform that ensures refugees are heard in moments of crisis, Atif shares how personal experience shaped his mission. Together, Hala and Atif explore:
Why Tarjimly chooses humans over algorithms in an AI-driven age
How nonprofits can build financial sustainability amid political and philanthropic headwinds
What it takes to transform lived experience into scalable impact
Why Atif believes each of us should find “the one problem we can wake up every day determined to solve”
Tarjimly is proving that the most powerful technology amplifies human connection rather than replacing it.
A full transcript for this episode is available here.
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