Rights Action
March 27, 2020
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OFRANEH & Garifuna people responding to COVID-19
OFRANEH & pueblo Garifuna ante la COVID-19
Miriam Miranda (@baraudawaguchu)
OFRANEH is weaving networks of community self-protection. To date, 14 Garifuna communities have organized COVID-19 Attention Centers, providing information and preparing communities for what is coming. Community organizing is the only safeguard we have.
Miriam Miranda (Twitter @baraudawaguchu)
Desde la OFRANEH hemos tejido redes de autoprotección comunitaria. A la fecha contamos con 14 comunidades Garífunas organizadas con Centros de atención por Covid-19 no sólo informativo, también prepararnos para lo que viene. Organización comunitaria es lo único seguro salvarnos.
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"Honduras and Guatemala are countries of pandemics: the pandemics of hunger and no access to water, of dengue, corruption, repression, and today of Covid-19. All these pandemics are inter-related. Trying to focus public, private, social and international cooperation actions and resources on one pandemic –COVID-19- without an integral approach strategy, only deepens the others. That is, there will be more people living with hunger, dengue, lack of water and loss of resources due to corruption and repression."
(Adapted from statement by Dr. Juan Almendares Bonilla, Honduran physician, former university rector)
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Consider supporting Rights Action’s:
COVID-19 Response Fund: Supporting communities in Honduras & Guatemala; forced migrants & refugees
Tax-Deductible Donations (Canada & U.S.)
To support the COVID-19 response work of our partner groups in Honduras and Guatemala, make check to "Rights Action" and mail to:
- U.S.: Box 50887, Washington DC, 20091-0887
- Canada: (Box 552) 351 Queen St. E, Toronto ON, M5A-1T8
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