Tuesday, 29 November 2016

Good, Give the Gift of Health for #GivingTuesday

By making a #GivingTuesday gift today, you can help change the future for some of the world’s poorest and most forgotten people.
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Give the Gift of Health for #GivingTuesday
Dear Good,

By making a #GivingTuesday gift today, you can help change the future for some of the world’s poorest and most forgotten people. These individuals aren’t asking for a handout. They are asking for a hand up, a chance to free themselves from the pain of disease and an ensuing cycle of poverty.

Support like yours has helped The Carter Center pioneer community-based interventions to educate people and help them change their behavior. In addition to leading the world’s output of sight-saving eyelid surgeries and drug distribution for neglected tropical diseases, we train field personnel and thousands of local volunteers to engage the public with preventive practices.

When a farmer in Ethiopia loses his eyesight to a disease like blinding trachoma, his entire family suffers. He can no longer grow crops. His children must leave school to take care of the household. The fragile economy of his village suffers irrevocably.

This is the start of a cycle of poverty that afflicts developing nations. With no funds or access to health care, people in developing nations — people just like you and me, who simply were born into unlucky circumstances — have no hope of fighting disease and achieving a life where education and good health are possible.

Good, you can change this today with a gift to fight disease. Please help free the world’s poorest people from the threat of neglected tropical diseases.
When you take action, you will help end a devastating cycle of disease and poverty.

Your gift will support preventive education and treatment
Providing immediate relief from pain
Keeping children in school and adults at work
Empowering communities to fight disease for the long term

Neglected tropical diseases, such as trachoma, river blindness, Guinea worm, lymphatic filariasis, schistosomiasis, and malaria, are completely preventable. Your gift will support proven, low-cost methods for controlling and eliminating these diseases. You will make it possible for the most at-risk people in the world to be saved from entirely unnecessary pain and poverty.

Thank you for being the caring person this world needs. Together, we can transform this special day of giving into lasting health for years to come.

With gratitude,


Jimmy Carter
Co-Founder and Trustee
The Carter Center
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Monday, 28 November 2016

Week 3 GIFTTT Guide Roundup

Exciting new features this week including August Lock, Fitbit Flex 2, Eight Smart Mattress, WeMo Switch and Garageio.


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Tuesday, 22 November 2016

Carter Center News: November 2016

Good, thank you for your ongoing interest in the peace and health efforts of The Carter Center. The world needs more caring individuals like you!

The Carter Center E-Newsletter. Waging Peace Fighting Disease. Building Hope.

 

 
Carter Center Celebrates 500 Millionth Dose of Hope
The Carter Center celebrates 500 million doses of medication distributed since 1996 to fight neglected tropical diseases. See our slideshow and find out what it took to reach this milestone.
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Carter Center Trains Ohio Election Observers
Find out why women in Ohio gave up part of their precious weekends to learn about election observation from Carter Center staff.
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Hispaniola: Hunting Parasites in the Dark
Parasites keep strange schedules. Those that cause lymphatic filariasis, for example, are mostly active at night. To detect parasites in the blood, Carter Center-trained health workers in Haiti and the Dominican Republic take nocturnal samples, sometimes as late as 2 a.m.
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Observing U.S. Elections
If you missed our special "Observing U.S. Elections" panel discussion, the video is now available on our website. While The Carter Center does not monitor U.S. elections, it recently conducted a state-by-state research project to determine just how possible it is.
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Defeating a Blinding Curse
Seven years in the making, a new, feature-length documentary "Trachoma: Defeating a Blinding Curse" follows Carter Center staff, global health partners, and Jimmy Carter as they work to eliminate blinding trachoma in Ethiopia.
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Monday, 21 November 2016

Week 2 GIFTTT Guide Roundup

Week 2 GIFTTT Guide roundup: including Automatic Pro, LIFX, Withings, Skybell, and Qblinks.


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Tuesday, 15 November 2016

Good, let's finish this

Soon Guinea worm disease will be the first human illness since smallpox to be completely eradicated from the earth. But we need your help today to win this fight.
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Dear Good,

Soon Guinea worm disease will be the first human illness since smallpox to be completely eradicated from the earth. But we need your help today to win this fight.

Guinea worm disease preys upon the world’s most vulnerable people, causing them severe pain and disability. It incapacitates individuals for extended periods of time, making them unable to care for themselves, work, grow food for their families, or attend school.

See how your support can save people from Guinea worm disease.

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Before the world can be certified as Guinea-worm free, the four remaining endemic countries — Chad, Ethiopia, Mali, and South Sudan, reporting just 22 cases in 2015 — must go three years with zero cases. Field staff and thousands of volunteers must remain vigilant, ready to track down and investigate leads on suspected cases to prevent new outbreaks.

That is where you come in. Your support will continue community-based interventions to educate people and change behavior. Residents will be reminded to purify drinking water with pipe filters and cloth filters. They will learn how to report on and contain outbreaks to prevent recontamination of their water sources. Trained personnel will care for those few individuals, unlucky enough to have the final cases, while the worm exits their bodies.

Please act now. We can end the agony and despair caused by this disease, once and for all. Rosalynn and I thank you for your partnership in this important work.

Sincerely,


Jimmy Carter
Co-Founder and Trustee
The Carter Center

P.S. Your support will help end Guinea worm disease, and the village-based health delivery systems the campaign has established in thousands of communities will prevent other diseases as well.
With your help, millions of women, children and men will no longer suffer from the pain of Guinea worm and other preventable diseases. Children can return to school and adults can return to work, improving their lives forever.
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Monday, 14 November 2016

GIFTTT Guide: Week 1

'Tis the season to give a GIFTTT that works with IFTTT! Featuring Nest, Muzik, Awair, Logitech POP, and D-Link.


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Tuesday, 8 November 2016

Good, your compassion can change lives

Voting in fair elections is easy to take for granted. Most of us have been doing it all our adult lives. But not everyone is as fortunate, and my trip to Myanmar to co-lead the Carter Center’s election team showed how blessed we really are.
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Dear Good,

Voting in fair elections is easy to take for granted. Most of us have been doing it all our adult lives. But not everyone is as fortunate, and my trip to Myanmar to co-lead the Carter Center’s election team showed how blessed we really are.

Please watch this short video to see the powerful transformation that thousands of caring and compassionate people like you are helping make possible.

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For millions around the world, this basic right remains something to be cherished, even if it means waiting a lifetime and then standing for hours in line to vote. It’s that important. And it’s the foundation on which every aspect of an accountable democracy must be built.

My trip underlined that we must never take fair elections for granted, and it also spotlighted another thing we’ll never take for granted — your support. Because it is partners like you who make all our successes possible.

Freedom from Guinea worm or other preventable diseases. Government transparency and ready access to information. Justice and legal systems that are available to all. All of the Carter Center’s efforts to accomplish these and other goals depend on the support of dedicated partners like you.

You can help us complete our three-decade mission to end Guinea worm disease, so no one will have to suffer its agonies again ....

You can save the eyesight of people who could otherwise only watch in fear as trachoma or river blindness erases their world ....

And you can help give millions what you have enjoyed for so long — the right to vote in free elections. These are what allow a democracy to mature into the kind of truly inclusive society in which people can not only live, but hope.

Please help sustain our efforts to bring peace, health, and hope to millions of people worldwide by making your most generous, tax-deductible gift today. Thank you!

Gratefully,


Jason Carter
Chairman
Board of Trustees
The Carter Center
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