Welcome to MICO
The Multilingual Information Co-Op (MICO) was designed by STARTTS and Red Cross at the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic as a platform for sharing important, time-sensitive, locally-relevant, in-language information. MICO achieves this through in-language videos that are posted on various social media platforms. STARTTS collaborates with various emergency/safety and health services to create scripts about health-related and safety-related information. MICO volunteers then volunteer to translate these scripts into their mother-tongues and record themselves reading the scripts.
Latest Videos
Our Volunteers
Bahin Al-Hassan
Bahin was born in Iraq but has been living in Australia for almost two years. He speaks Ezidi, Arabic and English. He joined MICO to assist the many Ezidi people in the...
Peny Saraswati
Peny was born in Indonesia and has been living in Australia for nearly six years. She speaks Bahasa Indonesia and works as a Learning Support Officer at a school. Her...
Angeline Ho
Angeline Ho was born in Malaysia but has lived in Australia since 2019. She speaks Mandarin and joined MICO so she could learn more about our diverse community in Coffs...
Wan Carma
Wan was born in Malaysia but has been living in Australia for 6 years. He speaks Malay, and his reason for joining the Multilingual Information Co-operative (MICO) is to help...