By Alix Samuel | Employee Engagement & Workplace Giving Manager
As the novel coronavirus continues to spread globally, people living in crisis will be hit hardest, and vulnerable families need immediate access to medical care. The International Rescue Committee is scaling up our response to the pandemic, providing lifesaving programs to vulnerable communities in over 40 countries worldwide, including the United States.
To help rescue lives, the IRC teams require emergency supplies. $60 can provide such essential items including protective gear, to effectively screen and educate communities to prevent the spread of contagious diseases such as COVID-19.
Additional supplies include foldable stretchers to transport at-risk pregnant women to medical facilities in conflict zones in Syria and Iraq.
Especially during this global pandemic, IRC is sending mobile teams to provide medical care to children in the most remote and hard-to-reach places in the world. Our teams navigate rocky terrain, mudslides and other treacherous conditions to reach children.
We also provide children and adults with preventative care and clean water, which is all the more critical now with the COVID-19 outbreak. Without our mobile health clinics, many children in war-torn Yemen and Nigeria would not have access to health care.
$500 can equip a mobile medical team with items such as scales, medical equipment, patient cards and tables, as well as protective gear to prevent the spread of contagious diseases like the coronavirus.
Thank you for your unwavering support.
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