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Dear
John,
As we look toward receiving vaccines for COVID-19, I want to tell you
about another disease that can be stopped with your generosity today.
River blindness has had a medicinal cure for years, yet it continues
to threaten some of the world's poorest people.
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River blindness is a parasitic infection that can cause intense
itching, skin discoloration, and rashes and can lead to permanent
vision loss. These farmworkers in Ethiopia receiving medicine from
Carter Center-trained health workers will be spared this suffering.
All it takes to eliminate this disease is a dose of anti-parasitic
medicine taken once or twice a year. By assisting Carter
Center-trained health workers as they deliver this medicine, donated
by Merck & Co., Inc., you can help stop transmission of river
blindness forever.
Not long ago, this disease was a major cause of blindness in
Colombia, Ecuador, Guatemala, and Mexico. Now, thanks in part to your
support, these countries are free of river blindness!
We are striving for the same success in Ethiopia, Nigeria, Sudan, and
Uganda. And, with your help, river blindness soon will be gone
entirely from the Western Hemisphere.
There is just one part of the Americas that still suffers. It's
a remote area of the Amazon rainforest on the border of Brazil and
Venezuela, populated by the indigenous Yanomami people. Getting
medicine to villages in this roadless area is an enormous challenge.
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Your support will help train local people, including Yanomami health
workers whose dedication to help their neighbors is amazing. They walk
for days and weeks along jungle paths, carrying supplies and medicine
on their backs, stopping to treat people one village at a time.
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And because your support for The Carter Center trains local people,
this critical work continues without interruption by COVID-19.
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FOR PEACE, HEALTH, AND HOPE »
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Your compassion will bring hope to the Yanomami and millions of other
vulnerable people. It will help advance human rights, nurture
democracy, and bring health to areas across the globe that suffer from
oppression or poverty. Even the simple medication you'll help
deliver to treat river blindness will fight several other parasitic
diseases at the same time.
There are only three days left in 2020 to support this important
work. Please join me and help people help themselves. I hope you agree
that this will be the most meaningful way to end 2020 and begin a new
year filled with hope. Thank you for being our partner.
Sincerely,
Jimmy Carter
Co-Founder and Trustee
The Carter Center
P.S. To qualify as a 2020 charitable contribution, your online
donation must be made by midnight in your time zone Dec. 31, 2020.
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