 | | Dear Good, | Mother’s Day is May 13, and you can honor the special women in your life with a unique gift that will bring hope to the world's poorest and most neglected people. Now, for a limited time, you can send a special eCard with an original painting by Carter Center founder and former U.S. President Jimmy Carter.
| | | Your Gift Will Help People Like Cordelia Anude | 
Cordelia Anude of Nigeria's Enugu state suffers from river blindness, also known as onchocerciasis, a parasitic infection that can cause intense itching, skin discoloration, rashes, and eye disease that often leads to permanent blindness. The parasite is spread by the bites of black flies that breed in rapidly flowing rivers. An advancing case of river blindness had impaired her vision, making it impossible to walk to church on Sunday or study her Bible at home.
The Carter Center, along with other partner organizations, distributes Mectizan®, donated by Merck & Co. Inc., Kenilworth, N.J. The medicine kills the worm larvae that cause river blindness, and twice-yearly doses have halted transmission of the disease altogether in some places.
Cordelia has found redemption through the work of The Carter Center and her neighbor, community-directed drug distributor Gabriel Ani. After three treatments with Mectizan, her vision has improved, she can take care of herself, and she has reconnected with her faith community.
“I can farm. I am strong,” she says forcefully. “The Mectizan tablet is small but mighty!”
The effectiveness of the drug is clear, but so is the need to continue treating people who remain at great risk. Please make a gift now to end the suffering of people like Cordelia »
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With your tribute gift, The Carter Center can address some of the world's most difficult problems, going where no one else will go and undertaking what no else will do. You will help bring families, communities, and entire nations sustainable solutions to end suffering from disease, conflict, and human rights abuses.
Thank you for making this Mother's Day extra special for the important women in your life and for the grateful people you will have indelibly touched with your kindness.
Sincerely,
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