LingVo.club
📖+10 XP
🎧+10 XP
✅+15 XP
Risk Know-How: a platform to help at‑risk communities (Level A1) — scrabble tiles spelling out words on a wooden surface

Risk Know-How: a platform to help at‑risk communitiesCEFR A1

22 Feb 2024

LevelA1
A2
B1
B2

Adapted from Roberto González, Luisa Massarani, SciDev • CC BY 2.0

Photo by Markus Winkler, Unsplash

Level A1 – Beginner
2 min
71 words
  • A new online service is Risk Know-How.
  • It helps communities to share their experience.
  • Groups can get specialist advice from experts.
  • It launched on 16 February at a science meeting.
  • The platform shows real case studies from groups.
  • One case came from a group on an island.
  • They gave prevention information and basic supplies.
  • A sign interpreter helped deaf people who cannot read.
  • The service helps communities in different countries.

Difficult words

  • community — a group of people who live or work together
    communities
  • specialist — a person with expert knowledge in one area
  • platform — an online site or system for people to use
  • prevention — actions to stop harm or danger before it happens
  • interpreter — a person who explains language for other people
  • launch — to start something new, for example a project
    launched

Tip: hover, focus or tap highlighted words in the article to see quick definitions while you read or listen.

Discussion questions

  • Would you use an online service to get advice?
  • Do people in your community share help or supplies?
  • Have you ever seen a sign interpreter?

Related articles

Africa plans to make more vaccines (Level A1)
1 Aug 2025

Africa plans to make more vaccines

The African Union aims for the continent to make most of its own vaccines by 2040. Africa now produces very few vaccines, and plans include new partnerships, factories and international funding, but experts warn of big challenges.

Level
A1
A2
B1
B2
Read