Pushing Forward in the Year of the Sheep

The National Language Service Corps (NLSC) experienced a successful year fulfilling its mission of maintaining a readily available corps of language volunteers. This year, the Federal Government’s need for language volunteers remained steady, and the program continued supporting language assignments and engaging its membership of over 5,600 Members who currently represent 320 languages.

DC Chinese New Years Festival

Two of our staff participated as a Bronze sponsor in the Washington DC Chinese New Year Parade and Festival on February 1, 2009. The event drew approximately five thousand people.

We handed out over 350 promotional brochures, our banner was in the festival parade, and we were able to speak with several members of the China Town Chambers of Commerce.

At the Chinese New Year festival in Falls Church, VA

On January 24 and 25, we were at the annual Chinese New Year festival in Falls Church, VA.  Much smaller scale that the conferences we attended last November, but we made some 66 contacts in the Chinese, Vietnamese, Indonesian and Thai communities.

This is NLSC Staffer Ang Li (left) speaking with a festival attendee.