Expat Zone

Hello there!

This isn’t a paid promo, just sharing something I’m genuinely excited about lately. Language barrier can be a huge obstacle when living in Czechia, especially when it comes to bureaucracy, where finer details can be very significant and I’m determined this tool will help you a great deal.

I’ll cut right to it - for the past few months, I’ve been using this automatic translator to understand documents from all over the world and the output quality is tremendous, incomparable to any machine translator I’ve encountered hitherto 𝗯𝘆 𝗳𝗮𝗿.

https://www.deepl.com/translator

That’s it, you’re welcome. 😁 Anyone knew about it? What do you think about the engine?

Take it EZ!

This matter isn’t commonly known about EZ, and there’s a reason for it. Despite doing it since 2019 (right when the project became financially self-sustainable), I’ve always felt a bit awkward about sharing it. It always felt like something normal, something you’d take for granted, something anyone successful does. However, since it concerns the money of the client, and isn’t that common after all, I have decided to open up about it.

At minimum, 2 % of what you’re paying Expat Zone after costs is being donated to people living either in warzones or in other insufferable conditions. It’s always being paid for the previous year based on annual net income. I’d hereby like to thank the organisation Člověk v tísni, one of the biggest and most impactful NGOs in Europe, for transparent and effective usage of the finances.

The first year‘s donation went to Afghanistan, mainly to women and children affected by the crisis. The money was spent on temporary shelter, food, water or direct financial support.

The second year’s donation has been sent to Nepal in an emergency fundraiser to help mitigate the impact of one of the worst COVID-19 spikes I’ve gotten to observe (this year’s May) - only 1 % of patients had access to hospital beds, they entirely ran out of oxygen during the worst part of the spike for about a month. The financing was used to buy these and other critical resources, such as respirators and disinfection.

The idea is that it's part of our civic duty to do what each individual can, one small step at a time, to help improve situation in developing countries where safety (something we’re usually not even concerned about) is still valuable commodity. Without safety, you cannot build & develop.

As long as Expat Zone will exist, we’ll be pursuing ways to provide help where it counts. And you as the client are part of it.