BetBlocker releases multi-lingual service version to support Eastern European communities in the UK

A little over a month since BetBlocker introduced its Portuguese-language version of the popular self-exclusion app, the company is now back with a new proposition designed to strengthen its reach and help local communities navigate gambling-related harm.

BetBlocker teams up with Yellow Scarf, GambleAware for new RG initiative

The company, which has been enjoying exponential growth over the past months, has released BetBlocker service versions in Ukrainian, Polish, and Russian, expanding on its language base and reach, and focusing on the native speakers of the target languages in the United Kingdom specifically.

To make this happen, BetBlocker has collaborated with Yellow Scarf, a charity that is specifically focused on offering support and treatment to Eastern Europeans in the Midlands of the United Kingdom.

The project has been further backed financially by GambleAware and its goal is to help break crucial language barriers that can help people who suffer from gambling-related harm get help and get better. Commenting on this opportunity, BetBlocker Founder and Trustee Duncan Garvie had this to add:

"A significant priority for BetBlocker is expanding the languages that we can support. As a tech solution to a complex problem, ensuring that users have as smooth and easy a set-up process as possible is paramount to our success in minimizing gambling harms. If a user can’t get our app set-up, we’ve failed."

Consumers should receive help in a language they feel confident using

Garvie has highlighted the need to offer BetBlocker’s services in a language that the target group understands well and can relate to and is further confident using.

Yellow Scarf has been one of the key motivators to provide BetBlocker’s service in the three new languages, Garvie added, and GambleAware has made it easier to cooperate with various treatment providers and create a powerful recovery journey for players.

Yellow Scarf Head of Development Tomasz Jarecki was similarly pleased to have the opportunity to assist consumers and make sure that, thanks to BetBlocker, target groups have access to a tool that is translated into their own language and can help the most vulnerable among them.

Jarecki acknowledged that the tool comes at a time when many people still struggle with mastery of the English language despite their best efforts, and having the option to seek help in their native language makes all the difference for them.

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