Good, Last Chance to Give Hope

 

As we put a close to one of the most painful years in recent history, I’m grateful that you have stood by The Carter Center and the vulnerable people we serve.

DONATE NOW » Dear Good, As we put a close to one of the most painful years in recent history, I’m grateful that you have stood by The Carter Center and the vulnerable people we serve. Tonight, please consider making a tax-deductible gift to support our peace and health work. Let’s make this new year one of recovery and renewal. Kate Orji, a longtime Carter Center-trained volunteer in southern Nigeria, heads out into her community to distribute medications that simultaneously treat river blindness, lymphatic filariasis, and schistosomiasis — diseases that prey upon the world’s poorest people. Your generosity will empower women, men, and children around the world to improve their own lives. You’ll help bring them the tools and training to: End the spread of entirely preventable diseases. Support honest elections and democratic rights. Stop violent conflict and human rights abuses. Improve mental health care and public understanding. All these outcomes are made possible through practical, sustainable strategies that achieve measurable results. PLEASE GIVE BY MIDNIGHT TONIGHT AND TRANSFORM THE LIVES OF THOSE IN NEED » Thank you for taking the time tonight to care for people who have nowhere else to turn. Your compassion makes me hopeful for a much better year to come. Wishing you a new year of good health and peace! 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 today, Dec. 31, 2020. PLEASE DONATE NOW FOR PEACE, HEALTH, AND HOPE » Donate Now   |   Forward to a Friend   |   Like Us on Facebook In FY2018-19, 91% of our spending went directly to our peace and health programs. 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. Update Your Preferences or Unsubscribe. The Carter Center | 453 Freedom Parkway, Atlanta, GA 30307 (404) 420-5100 | www.cartercenter.org © 2020 All rights reserved.

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Good, One Day Left

 

Today is the last day of the year, and I urge you to make a gift today that can change the lives of women and girls around the world.”

DONATE NOW » Dear Good, Today is the last day of the year, and I urge you to make a gift today that can change the lives of women and girls around the world. When I visit other countries, too often I see that women and girls are last in line: Last in line for health care. Last in line for voting rights. Last in line for land rights. Last in line even for food. No cultural, religious, or legal tradition justifies a girl suffering with disease when treatment is readily available … or a woman not being allowed to vote when others can ... or a mother being left unable to feed her children because her land has been confiscated. The young girl pictured above lives in Liberia. Your gift will help her and all the people in her village take control of their own lives, their health, and their futures. When you support The Carter Center, you stand with oppressed people and work with their governments to enhance accountability, transparency, and inclusive access to information and justice. That’s the progress the world needs in 2021. As we count down the hours to the end of this year, please take this final opportunity to make a difference. Thank you. I wish you a happy and healthy new year! MAKE A GIFT NOW FOR PEACE, HEALTH, AND HOPE » 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 today Dec. 31, 2020. Donate Now   |   Forward to a Friend   |   Like Us on Facebook In FY2018-19, 91% of our spending went directly to our peace and health programs. 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. Update Your Preferences or Unsubscribe. The Carter Center | 453 Freedom Parkway, Atlanta, GA 30307 (404) 420-5100 | www.cartercenter.org © 2020 All rights reserved.

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Good, Only 3 Days Left

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.”

DONATE NOW TO BUILD HOPE » Dear Good, 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. 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. 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. DONATE NOW TO FIGHT DISEASE » 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. And because your support for The Carter Center trains local people, this critical work continues without interruption by COVID-19. MAKE A GIFT NOW FOR PEACE, HEALTH, AND HOPE » 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. Donate Now   |   Forward to a Friend   |   Like Us on Facebook In FY2018-19, 91% of our spending went directly to our peace and health programs. 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. Update Your Preferences or Unsubscribe. The Carter Center | 453 Freedom Parkway, Atlanta, GA 30307 (404) 420-5100 | www.cartercenter.org © 2020 All rights reserved.

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Good, This Photo Shows Why Your Gift Matters

Several years ago, when I stood in front of this group of children in Ghana, I asked them, “Who here has had Guinea worm disease?”

DONATE NOW » Dear Good, Several years ago, when I stood in front of this group of children in Ghana, I asked them, “Who here has had Guinea worm disease?” If you look closely, you’ll see that most of the children have had Guinea worm disease! My friend, this photo shows why your ongoing support and commitment to our work is so important. In the region of Ghana where I stood that day, we worked with volunteer health workers and village leaders to bring an end to Guinea worm disease. Today, all of these children and the entire nation of Ghana is free of Guinea worm. Someday soon, if you ask a group of villagers, “Who has had Guinea worm disease?” it will be only adults who raise their hands. And one day across the entire world, no one will raise their hands! Guinea worm will be a distant memory. But we have to finish the job and make the same kind of progress against other diseases that prey upon the world’s poorest people. As we come to the end of this year, I urge you to make a final tax-deductible gift to bring health and peace to people in need. We’re ready to turn your compassion into action. MAKE YOUR CONTRIBUTION NOW TO WAGE PEACE AND FIGHT DISEASE » Rosalynn and I thank you for your generosity and wish you a healthy, happy, and hope-filled New Year! 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. Donate Now   |   Forward to a Friend   |   Like Us on Facebook In FY2018-19, 91% of our spending went directly to our peace and health programs. 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. Update Your Preferences or Unsubscribe. The Carter Center | 453 Freedom Parkway, Atlanta, GA 30307 (404) 420-5100 | www.cartercenter.org © 2020 All rights reserved.

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Happy Holidays to You and Your Family

A special holiday message from the Carters.

May your holidays be filled with peace, health, and hope ABOVE: Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter and First Lady Rosalynn Carter together with their children, grandchildren, and great grandchildren at the Atlanta Botanical Garden on Dec. 30, 2018, during the Carter family’s annual vacation. Photo courtesy of Atlanta Botanical Garden. Forward to a Friend   |   Like Us on Facebook In FY2018-19, 91% of our spending went directly to our peace and health programs. 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. Update Your Preferences or Unsubscribe. The Carter Center | 453 Freedom Parkway, Atlanta, GA 30307 (404) 420-5100 | www.cartercenter.org © 2020 All rights reserved.

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Guinea Worm Wrap-Up #273

Good, as The Carter Center counts down to the end of Guinea worm disease, we are pleased to bring you the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Guinea Worm Wrap-Up.

Good, as The Carter Center counts down to the end of Guinea worm disease, we are pleased to bring you the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Guinea Worm Wrap-Up #273.   OPEN THE GUINEA WORM WRAP-UP » Synopsis of Recent Developments GUINEA WORM WARRIOR EXTRAORDINAIRE We are profoundly shocked, saddened, and aggrieved to report the passing of General Amadou Toumani Toure (“ATT”), the former President of Mali, on November 10, 2020. Full Report » CHAD Chad reported 12 confirmed human cases of Guinea worm disease (40% contained), 1,464 infected dogs (86% contained), 61 infected domestic cats (51% contained), and two infected wild cats (uncontained) in January-October 2020. The numbers of infected humans and animals reported in January-October 2020 were reduced by 74% and 21% respectively, compared to the same period of 2019. Full Report » MALI After reporting zero Guinea worm cases in humans, 46 dog infections, and four cat infections from 2016-2019, Mali has reported one laboratory-confirmed human case and eight confirmed dog infections in January-October 2020. Full Report » SOUTH SUDAN Following a June 2020 suspected case of Guinea worm disease in a young South Sudanese man from Raga County of Western Bahr Al Ghazal State, Guinea Worm Eradication Program staff and state health workers conducted a sweep of the region. They screened 11,076 people and 5,359 animals for Guinea worm disease and detected 153 human rumors, 14 animal rumors, 30 human suspect cases, and three animal suspect infections, but found no Guinea worm cases in humans or Guinea worm infections in animals. The specimen removed from the original suspect human case from June 2020 was sent to CDC for laboratory testing but was found not to be a Guinea worm. Full Report » ETHIOPIA Ethiopia has reported no new animal infections between September and October 2020, after reporting a total of 15 animals (eight cats, three dogs, and four baboons) with confirmed Guinea worm infections between March and August. The Ethiopian Dracunculiasis Eradication Program has reported 11 confirmed human cases to date in 2020. Full Report » ANGOLA Giovanna Steel, Associate Director of the GWEP at The Carter Center, arrived in Angola in early November for a joint field visit to Cunene Province with representatives from the Angolan Ministry of Health, the National Technical Certification Committee for Guinea Worm Eradication, and WHO, to follow up on the development of community-based surveillance and response to Guinea worm infections. Full Report » The Carter Center has been fighting Guinea worm disease since 1986 with a global coalition of partners, including the Ministries of Health of endemic countries, the World Health Organization, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and others. Donate Now   |   Forward to a Friend   |   Subscribe Now   |   Like Us on Facebook In FY2018-19, 91% of our spending went directly to our peace and health programs. 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 © 2020 All rights reserved.

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Carter Center News: December 2020

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.     Youthful Energy Tackles Old Problem Ethiopia has reduced the ancient affliction of Guinea worm disease to a small handful of human cases. Now the focus is on keeping dogs free of infection, and in at least one village, young people are playing an important role. Watch the video »       Inform Women, Transform Lives Did you know access to information is a universal human right? The Carter Center has launched a groundbreaking campaign to increase women’s access to information in 13 cities across the globe. Learn more »       Carter Center Adjusts for Pandemic While the COVID-19 pandemic has brought tough challenges around the world, The Carter Center continues to find ways to wage peace, fight disease, and build hope. Learn more »       Youth Key in Sudan’s Shift to Democracy Sudan is working out a new identity as it transitions to peace and democracy, and young people can lead the way. A new Carter Center initiative will train some 20,000 Sudanese under age 35 on democratic processes. Read the blog »       Meet the Fellows Rosalynn Carter mental health journalism fellows publish stories worldwide on some of society’s biggest mental health challenges and inequities. Meet three fellows whose reporting on mental illness has inspired better laws and policies in their communities. Learn more »     Donate Now   |   Forward   |   Subscribe   |   Like Us on Facebook In FY2018-19, 91% of our spending went directly to our peace and health programs. 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 © 2020 All rights reserved.

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