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
Nu Tawng
Tawng is originally from Thailand and comes from a Kachin cultural background. She has been living in Coffs Harbour for 11 years. She joined MICO in 2021 and enjoys volunteering...
Marta Bahta
Marta was born in Eritrea and has been in Australia for 15 years. Marta has worked with a number of services for people from multicultural background including; Anglicare, North Coast...
Aye Min
Aye Min was born in a Thailand Refugee Camp but has been living in Australia for 15 years. He speaks Karenni and is passionate about helping the community. He joined...
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...