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The Australian bushfire crisis

As news of Australia’s bushfire crisis makes headlines around the world, many colleagues, customers and friends have contacted us to share their concern and offer support and well wishes.

The Sunshine Coast (where our head office is located) experienced several severe bushfires late last year—thankfully no one on our team was directly impacted, except by smoke.

Photo of a small tree with green leaves on a ridge. There is a swathe of burnt forest in the background, where the tree trunks are blackened and the leaves of the canopy are red and orange. A row of houses is visible just beyond the edge of the burnt area.
The landscape is slowly recovering at Peregian Springs on the Sunshine Coast after a severe bushfire in late 2019.

We are a long way north of the current bushfire crisis in NSW, Victoria and South Australia, but it’s a distressing and challenging time for many Australians, whether we’re in the path of the fires or not.

Typefi is supporting the bushfire relief effort with financial donations to several organisations and causes.

The Typefi team sits in front of assembled children at a Sri Lankan primary school while a teacher in brightly-coloured traditional dress looks on. The assembly area has an exposed wooden ceiling and just one wall with a chalkboard on it.

Supporting schoolkids in rural Sri Lanka

Chathini Uduwana
Regional Manager Sri Lanka, Typefi

Every year, Typefi’s Colombo team initiates a Corporate Social Responsibility project to enhance local society in some way. Our efforts can range from implementing environmentally friendly policies in the workplace to donating money or essentials to worthy causes.

A group photo of the Typefi team with schoolchildren, teachers and community members at Weragala Primary School.
Typefi Colombo team members (back right) with children, teachers and community members at Weragala Primary School in rural Sri Lanka.

We like to focus on helping kids in rural schools. Sri Lanka provides free education for everyone, and all the Typefi staff members in Colombo have taken advantage of free education, but often schools in rural and remote areas do not have access to the same resources as those in the city.

Typefi launches Enabling Accessible Publishing at Frankfurt

Typefi CEO Chandi Perera officially announced the launch of Enabling Accessible Publishing—a Typefi initiative that will help to make information more accessible to all—at the Frankfurt Book Fair on Wednesday, 10 October 2018.

The Enabling Accessible Publishing program will provide free Typefi software and services to not-for-profit, volunteer-driven organisations that are producing content in accessible formats for people living with visual, auditory, physical, or cognitive disabilities.