For months, Girmay Mengesha has been an unofficial translator and health adviser in the public-housing tower he shares with hundreds of migrants in Melbourne.
The Ethiopian-born immigrant jumped into the informal role when he noticed most COVID-19 information was in English, rather than the 10 different languages spoken in his block.
"Our people were scared,” the 30-year-old said. "The lack of information meant we had to improvise.”
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