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. |
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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.
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.
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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