Carter Center News: May 2018

Good, thank you for following the work of The Carter Center to advance peace and health worldwide. We appreciate the opportunity to stay in touch with you.     Carters Honored with Global Health Award Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter and former First Lady Rosalynn Carter received the 2018 Bill Foege Global Health Award for their work to prevent needless suffering and improve the lives of millions of the world’s poorest people though the Center's health programs. Watch the video »       Carter Center Programs Join Forces in Liberia Several Carter Center programs joined forces to assist with Liberia's recent presidential election. Though the process was at times rocky, peace prevailed. Find out what the future holds for Africa’s oldest republic. Watch the video »       High-Tech Lab Magnifies River Blindness Work In Ethiopia, The Carter Center and its partners are fighting river blindness in a state-of-the-art laboratory which studies blood, skin samples, and captured black flies. Learn more »       Turning Information into Income A Center-sponsored workshop on accessing government information gave Olivia Stewart of New Georgia Estate, Liberia, the confidence she needed to track down and apply for a grant. When she won, Stewart invested the money in her microlending business with a focus on improving the lives of women in her low-income community. Read her story »       Testing Shows No Sign of LF Results of recent surveys confirm that lymphatic filariasis (LF) transmission has been eliminated as a public health problem in Plateau and Nasarawa states, Nigeria. Over the past two years, more than 14,000 children ages 6 and 7 were tested throughout the two-state area, and not one of them was found to be infected. Learn more »       Podcast: Congo’s Mining Sector Though the Democratic Republic of Congo has more than half of the global supply of cobalt, its people are among the poorest in the world. In an interview with Carter Center Democracy Program staffer Erin Crysler, find out why the public has not benefited from Congo’s lucrative copper and cobalt mines and what a Carter Center report recommends. Listen now »     Donate Now   |   Forward   |   Subscribe   |   Like Us on Facebook In FY2016-17, 95% of our spending went directly to those in need. We are committed to protecting your privacy and will never sell, exchange, or rent your email address. Update Your Profile or Unsubscribe. The Carter Center | 453 Freedom Parkway, Atlanta, GA 30307 (404) 420-5100 | www.cartercenter.org © 2018 All rights reserved.

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Improvements to our Privacy Policy and Privacy Controls

BrendaModica252@gmail.com This month, we're updating our Privacy Policy to make it easier for you to understand what information we collect and why we collect it. We've also taken steps to improve our Privacy Checkup and other controls that we provide to safeguard your data and protect your privacy. Nothing is changing about your current settings or how your information is processed. Rather, we've improved the way we describe our practices and how we explain the options you have to update, manage, export and delete your data. We're making these updates as new data protection regulations come into effect in the European Union, and we're taking the opportunity to make improvements for Google users around the world. Making our Privacy Policy easier to understand Simpler structure & clearer language We've improved the navigation and organisation of the policy to make it easier to find what you're looking for. We've also explained our practices in more detail and with clearer language. New descriptive videos & illustrations Often a visual description is easier to understand than text alone, so we've added short videos and illustrations throughout the policy. Embedded privacy controls We've made it easier to jump to key settings directly from the policy, helping you make choices about your privacy. The revised policy is available here and will take effect on 25 May 2018. Improving your privacy controls Within the past year, we updated My Activity so that you can better access and manage the data in your Google Account. We also launched a redesigned Dashboard, which allows you to easily see an overview of products that you're using and your data associated with them. This month, we've updated our Privacy Checkup with new illustrations and examples to help you make more informed choices about your key privacy controls. And since we understand that your preferences may change over time, the new Privacy Checkup enables you to sign up for regular reminders to check your privacy settings. To learn more about these and other controls to manage your privacy, visit your Google Account. © 2018 Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043 This email was sent to brendamodica252@gmail.com to provide an update about your Google Account.

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Reminder to send a gift for Mother's Day

Your gift will help people like Cordelia Anude.

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. MAKE A GIFT IN HONOR OF YOUR MOTHER WITH A SPECIAL ECARD »   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 » 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. GIVE THE GIFT OF HOPE »   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, Donate Now   |   Forward to a Friend   |   Subscribe Now   |   Like Us on Facebook In FY2016-17, 95% of our spending went directly to those in need. We appreciate the opportunity to communicate with you. We are committed to protecting your privacy and will never sell, exchange, or rent your email address. Unsubscribe. The Carter Center | 453 Freedom Parkway, Atlanta, GA 30307 (404) 420-5100 | www.cartercenter.org © 2018 All rights reserved.

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