Urge The WHO to Ensure COVID-19 Vaccines are Distributed Equitably

As you may know, citizens of developing countries have been disproportionately affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. When vaccines become available, millions of doses will be bought up by the wealthiest countries. This means that lower-income countries like Bolivia will be cared for last, and only if there are any vaccines left. 

Will you stand with us to ask the World Health Organization (WHO) to support the equitable distribution of vaccines? 

Without your help, many patients in lower-income countries will be left without access to treatment — patients like Martha. 

Our organization met Martha during the height of the pandemic. Being from a small, crowded town in Bolivia, Martha knew that her chances of being exposed to COVID-19 were incredibly high. Her old age greatly added to those chances. 

Sadly, Martha's fear of falling ill became a reality. She started experiencing symptoms of COVID-19 early one morning—extreme fever, trouble breathing. She immediately thought of her grandchildren, fearing the risk that her illness would present to them. 

Martha was scared to seek help, because it would mean separating from her family. She had seen too many local families torn apart by COVID-19. But Martha knew that she needed to protect her loved ones, so she left home to seek treatment with a heavy heart.

She approached one of the health care volunteers at Medical Ministry International, who was able to give her an early diagnosis. Martha knew that the health care workers would listen and try to help her, but being quarantined from her family, especially her two young grandchildren, broke her heart. 

Thankfully, early intervention allowed Martha to make a full recovery and today, she has been reunited with her family!

Unfortunately, her story of early diagnosis and recovery is not a common one. And the inequitable distribution of vaccines will be sure to create more stories of loss, suffering, and separated families. 

YOU have the ability to change this reality. People like Martha are not strangers, they are our neighbors, our brothers and our sisters. "You shall love your neighbor as yourself. There is no other commandment greater than these" (Mark 12:31). Please join us in saying that the inequitable distribution of vaccines is not okay. Will you push the WHO to fight this injustice by signing our petition today?

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