The Carter Center

TODAY FOR #GIVINGTUESDAY,
GIVE TWICE AS MUCH EYESIGHT »
Your gift will be matched dollar for dollar by the Hilton Foundation.

Dear John,

There are many wonderful opportunities for contributing today on #GivingTuesday. But I can’t imagine one more effective than when you take advantage of our special match where your gift to end blinding trachoma will be doubled!

Your gift will help people like Rakia. This young mother who lives in a remote village in Niger had scarring inside her eyelids from trachoma, putting her at risk of blindness, like so many others in her village. She was worried about what the future held if she couldn’t recover and agreed to let a Carter Center-trained surgeon correct the problem with a simple operation.

Trachoma is the world's leading cause of preventable blindness. It’s a bacterial infection found in poor, isolated communities that lack clean water and adequate sanitation. It’s transmitted by secretions that stick to hands and faces, are left on fabrics, and are carried from person to person by flies. Repeated infections lead to scarring like Rakia’s that turns the eyelashes inward, resulting in painful scratches on the cornea and, eventually, blindness. Women and children are most at risk.

YOUR GIFT WILL GO TOWARD A
PROVEN STRATEGY CALLED SAFE.

Simple eyelid Surgery
Distribution of Antibiotics
Education on Facial cleanliness
Environmental improvements like latrines

DOUBLE YOUR IMPACT NOW »

Trachoma can be treated with antibiotics and surgery. And it can be prevented by education and hygienic improvements that reduce fly populations. Combined, these interventions form what’s called the SAFE strategy.

Today, when you make a #GivingTuesday gift to end blinding trachoma in Mali and Niger, the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation will match your gift, doubling its reach. Your gift will go twice as far to help Rakia and others like her keep their sight to see their children and grandchildren.

For more than 35 years, The Carter Center has demonstrated that people can improve their own lives when provided with the necessary skills, knowledge, and access to resources. This is why the SAFE strategy is so effective, and it is how Ghana recently became completely trachoma free. Now Mali and Niger are working to defeat this disease. People like Rakia need your help today.

So that we can make the greatest impact possible, please be generous and donate before the end of #GivingTuesday. Thank you for helping people escape and avoid blinding trachoma.

Sincerely,

Jimmy Carter
Co-Founder and Trustee
The Carter Center

YOUR GIFT WILL BE DOUBLED
TO PREVENT BLINDNESS »

P.S. If you haven’t yet watched our thank you video, please do. It shows what you’ve helped accomplish this year. And then I hope you’ll make a generous #GivingTuesday gift that will be doubled to prevent blindness!

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