Fazal Rabi

 

 

I am a reliable, punctual and well organised individual with excellent translation, interpretation and administration manners. I am able to prioritise work loads successfully for performing a better job and work well as a member of a team. Keen to learn new skills when necessary and to undertake any further training to enhance career prospects.

 

 

Language	Speaking	Writing	Reading	Typing
English	VG	VG	VG	60w/m
Pashto	E	E	E	40w/m
Dari (Persian)	E	E	E	40w/m
Urdu	G	G	G

 

G: Good 

Work Experiences: 

I have been working as an approved Interpreter and Translator for Pashto and Dari and Urdu languages with the UK Border Agency all over United Kingdom. My job is to interpret all kinds of the asylum and immigration interviews of Pashto, Dari and Urdu languages into English  and vice versa.

 

 Freelancer

 

Worked as Translator and Interpreter of English, Pashto and Dari (Persian) languages for several Translation and Interpretation agencies in London such as Hounslow Borough Civic Centre, Real time, Today Translation and ITV news. I have been translating the public service packages of social life, immigration and rehabilitation issues, socio-cultural and linguistic issues, training materials etc from English to Pashto and Dari (Persian) and vice versa. I also interpret the immigration related interviews of Pashto and Dari (Persian) speakers, clients in the hospitals, clinics, medical and rehabilitation centres, schools, solicitors and their clients in the legal centres in and around London, Oxford, Birmingham and Manchester in the United Kingdom. 

 

Worked as Translator and Radio Production Assistant with the BBC London Pashto and Persian sections where as a Translator I was translating materials and reports from Pashto and Persian into English.  As Radio Production Assistant I would take reports from our reporters from Afghanistan, Pakistan and Uzbekistan through telephone and FTP, transcribing and editing them and attending live transmission.

 

During my career with the BBC World Service I also worked for Afghan Education Drama Project Pashto and Persian Section in Bush House London where as a Radio Production Assistant my responsibility was to prepare, edit, transcribe and record all the Afghan educational programs such as New Home New Life, Our World Our Life (youth education), Lifeline, Home and Environment, Village Voice, English by Radio and Health and Life programmes. I was preparing and organizing all these programmes ready for broadcasting 7 days a week.

 

Additional to the tasks mentioned above during my career with BBC World Service, I was also translating Afghanistan related important interviews from Pashto and Persian into English, updating BBC Pashto programme website, attending Pashto and Persian live transmission, archiving materials, audio outputting and typing in Pashto and Persian on line were my other tasks when working with the BBC Pashto and Persian Sections in Bush House London. 

 

 

I worked as translator of English, Pashto and Persian languages with the Save the Children, Sweden (Radda Barnen) / United Nation Comprehensive Disabled Afghan Project (UNCDAP) in Peshawar Pakistan.  Besides being as translator here I also worked as Trainers Supervisor and Trainer for Social Work and Community Based Rehabilitation (CBR) of people with disability in Afghanistan and Pakistan. 

 I was the main source for the training of field trainers of the CDAP project in Wardak, Logar and Ghazni provinces in Afghanistan. Our main office was based in Peshawar, but had training centres inside Afghanistan where frequently I would conduct training sessions for the field trainers.  After the training I would visit and supervised the filed trainers in their areas, followed up their training sessions conducted for the field workers and community members and provide them with the required feedback for more effectiveness of the CBR programmes for the rehabilitation and of people with disabilities and their integration into their communities. 

 

 

Beside of my full time working with Radda Barnen Training Unit in Peshawar, I also worked as a freelancer with the BBC Afghan Education Drama Project in Peshawar.  I was preparing and making interviews in different sections of social life of Afghans in their refugee environment in Pakistan and in their own home land Afghanistan. I was producing different packages in Pashto and Persian Sections for the BBC several social programs such as Village Voice, Youth Life and Women programs.

 

Worked as translator of Pashto, Persian and English languages, computer operator and did other administrative related duties with the Alliance Health Committee (AHC) supported by USAID through Management Science for Health (MSH) in Peshawar, Pakistan.

I taught High and Med Level English language classes in IRC (International Rescue Committee) English courses in Peshawar Pakistan.

 

West Thames College,

London, United Kingdom,

University of Colombo, Sri Lanka

 

Kabul University, Afghanistan,

 

Nadaria High School,

Kabul Afghanistan

 

Organised by the Hounslow Translation Unit

London, United Kingdom

Word Processing          MS Word 2000, Hounslow, London

Spreadsheets                MS Excel 2000, Hounslow, London

Databases                    MS Access 2000, Hounslow, London

 

Radio Production Training,

BBC World Service,

Bush House, London,

Training of Radio Production Package,

AED, BBC Peshawar, Pakistan

ASP (Afghan Scholarship Program) Intensive English Courses taught by the American instructors of Nebraska University,

Peshawar Pakistan

 

American Centre, English Language Advance course,

Quetta, Baluchistan, Pakistan