Our solidarity movement grows stronger daily.
inside the face of an unprecedented pandemic that is forcing all of us to bodily separate from every completely different, lots of of hundreds of individuals are as a substitute coming collectively virtually to battle again.
In simply three months, the COVID-19 virus has unfold to every nook of the planet.
but in simply three weeks, the world has raised larger than $127 million to the COVID-19 Solidarity Response Fund.
And we would corresponding to you to affix us.
“We’re seeing on the particular person diploma a unprecedented outpouring of solidarity all by means of the world,” UN basis’s President and CEO Elizabeth Cousens advised Yahoo Finance this week. “we ought to always emerge from this disaster stronger — and with a renewed dedication to cooperate.”
ALL arms ON DECK
The COVID-19 Solidarity Response Fund is the a method for of us and corporations to assist the World well being group (WHO)’s world response to the pandemic — and every donation issues.
corporations have stepped up from the start and extra proceed to affix the solidarity movement daily.
This week, Sony, Starbucks and Microsoft pledged assist for the Fund, as effectively as to merely a few of the world’s most celebrated style designers, collectively with Ralph Lauren, Alexander Wang, Calvin Klein, and Jimmy Choo.
final weekend, Twitch — the world’s main dwell-streaming platform for avid gamers — launched collectively celebrities and followers alike to enhance larger than $2.7 million by means of music performances, interviews, and dwell competitions all by means of a 12-hour “Stream assist.”
in the meantime, people throughout the planet are discovering distinctive and creative methods to join and crowd-supply in assist of WHO’s world pandemic response.
“The world should hold aside and are obtainable collectively,” Karen Forde of ireland advised my colleague this week in our new Solidarity spotlight sequence highlighting simply a few of our beneficiant supporters all by means of the world. Karen decided to launch a 4,000-squat health problem on GoFundMe to enhance donations. “I simply want to do my half,” she says.
YOUR assist AT WORK
as a consequence of the UN agency answerable for worldwide public well being, who’s main the worldwide response to the COVID-19 pandemic by mobilizing sources, coordinating governments, dashing up vaccine evaluation and enchancment, and offering very important gives to frontline well being workers.
listed under are solely simply a few of the methods in which @WHO is responding to #COVID19. I sincerely thank all of the international places, institutions and people all by means of the world who’ve supplied assist: https://t.co/ThQ7fvphjC pic.twitter.com/psKxNNLCdy
— Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus (@DrTedros) March 23, 2020
to this point, WHO has shipped virtually 1.eight million objects of private defending devices, as effectively as to 1.5 million testing kits to international places throughout the globe.
in the present day, WHO introduced that the Fund may even assist assist UNICEF’s work offering entry to water, sanitation, and hygiene for the planet’s most weak households, which shall be essential to stopping the unfold of an infection. UNICEF may even mobilize its large neighborhood outreach and nation purposes to prepare households, caretakers, lecturers, and social workers with proof-based mostly steerage on the COVID-19 pandemic.
RALLYING BEHIND well being workers
Few emergencies have showcased the heroism of well being workers simply like the COVID-19 pandemic.
As a aspect of World well being Day on April seventh, UNF is becoming a member of forces with United method Worldwide and comic aid US’s pink nostril Day to launch #HopefromHome, a fundamental-of-its-form social media fundraiser that can unite entertainers, CEOs, influencers, avid gamers, and viewers throughout a quantity of platforms — collectively with TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, Twitch, Twitter, and fb.
all by means of the day, members can watch inspiring tales about males and ladies in a distinctive form of uniform who’re sacrificing their safety to hold away from losing lives in hospitals, clinics, nursing homes, and well being care services throughout the globe.
how one may assist
on the coronary heart of our solidarity movement is the understanding that we should put money into the worldwide response now — or pay a far larger worth later.
“Financing the well being response is an important funding not simply in saving lives, however inside the longer-time period social and financial restoration,” WHO Director-regular Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus mentioned all by means of a media briefing this morning.
every greenback counts. defending and investing in well being workers and first responders shall be essential to cease the unfold. simply $25 ought to buy 10 liter-sized bottles of disinfectant for hospital workers. Donating $one hundred can current three,750 surgical masks for well being workers on the entrance strains of the pandemic. A $500 donation can current 168 defending hooded coveralls.
in case you have gotten a U.S. mobile provider, you may even give through textual content material:
- to current $25 to WHO, textual content material WHO25 to 501501.
- to current $50, textual content material WHO50 to 501501.
Have questions regarding the fund? go to our FAQ.
every donation makes a distinction. assist WHO’s life-saving efforts to answer to the COVID-19 pandemic by giving to the COVID-19 Solidarity Response Fund. Donations made through fb shall be matched as a lot as $10,000,000. by means of April 30, 2020, for every $1 you donate right here, Google.org will donate $2, as a lot as $5,000,000.