(ANSA) - ROME, 03 DEC - Beyond the Mediterranean there is a continent where only 7% of the population has received a dose of the vaccine. On that continent, people do not have the possibility to choose and Covid 19 continues to be scary. From these premises "#coopforafrica" begins a fund-raising campaign to promote vaccination and the fight against Covidin Africa which sees consumer cooperatives alongside three humanitarian organizations strongly committed to international solidarity such as the UN Refugee Agency-UNHCR, the Community of Sant'Egidio and Medici SenzaFrontiere. The campaign was launched this morning in the Rome office of UNHCR with the interventions of Marco Pedroni, President of Coop Italia and Ancc-Coop, of the president of the Community of Sant'Egidio, Marco Impagliazzo,and ChiaraCardinaletti, UNHCR representative for Italy, the Holy See and San Marino.
All three organizations are already active in Africa to promote vaccination. The campaign starts next December 9 and will last one month, the donations collected will be doubled by Coop. You can donate to the cash desks of over 1100 Coop points of sale or use the Eppela platform (www.eppela.com/coopforafrica) or the dedicated current account (Iban: IT 12 E 02008 05364000106277813). These last two modes are already active starting from 3 December. "The goal - explained Pedroni - is to exceed one million euros, a figure necessary to vaccinate around 250,000 people. A way to contribute to insecurity in the poorest countries in the world where the pandemic is unloading on fragile and insufficient health systems.Ethical alarms also add up to the need to neutralize a virus in the mutation phase as much as possible, starting from the assumption that no one saves himself alone in the face of Covid-19 ".
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