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Age International

About Age International

How the Age International is Providing Support During the Coronavirus

How the Age International is Providing Support During the Coronavirus

Age International supports older people in some of the poorest places in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East to have improved wellbeing and be treated with dignity. We are Age UK’s international charity and the UK member of HelpAge – the largest global network to support older people, comprising 154 organisations in 85 countries.


  

  

From emergency aid to eye care, we support older people in a variety of different ways including 


  • Emergency aid – Older people are particularly vulnerable during conflicts, crises and natural disasters – yet they are often forgotten. We help them to survive.


  • Healthcare – In countries where healthcare is stretched and limited, we make sure people can see specialist doctors and get the care that they need.


  • Care – Not everyone can be cared for by their family – we train and support volunteer carers who visit extremely vulnerable older people in their homes.


  • Pensions – We campaign for pensions around the world. Where benefits do exist, we make sure there are no barriers to people claiming what they are owed.


  • Investing in small businesses – Older people often struggle to secure loans, due to discrimination. We help people become self-sufficient by investing in small businesses, which benefits local communities.


  • Empowering older women – Women experience ageism on top of sexism in later life. We aim to amplify older women's voices and protect the right to equality at all ages.


  • Helping people to see again – Our free cataract operations are helping to cure one of the world’s most common ageing eyesight problems, for some of the world’s poorest people.


  • Fighting ageism and discrimination – We all matter – no matter how old we are. Age International fights for people who have been marginalised because of their age.

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How the Age International is Providing Support During the Coronavirus

How the Age International is Providing Support During the Coronavirus

How the Age International is Providing Support During the Coronavirus

69% of the global population aged over 60 live within low- and middle-income countries. These people are at greater risk of catching coronavirus, threatening their lives. The impact will affect not only them, but their families and communities. In over-crowded slums or refugee camps, basic hand hygiene and physical distancing is already a struggle. A widespread COVID-19 outbreak in these places would have catastrophic consequences.


We are currently working to protect older people across Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East – where healthcare systems are already severely stretched, weak, or non-existent.


Through local partners on the ground, we are working to reach the most vulnerable older people by:

  • Raising awareness to limit the spread
  • Training healthcare workers
  • Providing protective equipment for staff and volunteers
  • Distributing hygiene kits
  • Increasing capacity of medical facilities


Since March 2020 we have been working to reach communities in northern Syria, where in the last few months, hundreds of thousands of people have had to flee their homes. In Malawi and Mozambique, our community outreach teams are ensuring that vital prevention messaging reaches older people already affected by Cyclone Idai. In Myanmar, we've worked with the government to produce coronavirus prevention messaging targeted at 5 million high-risk people. In Bangladesh, we are distributing hygiene kits to 21,000 older people in Cox’s Bazar, the world’s largest refugee settlement, home to nearly one million Rohingya refugees fleeing persecution in Myanmar. We are also speaking to government officials to ensure public health messaging and support measures fully consider the needs of older women and men.


A gift from you will help us to support some of the world’s most vulnerable older people.

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Doctors without Borders / MSF

About Doctors without Borders / MSF

How the Doctors Without Borders / Médécins Sans Frontières is Providing Support During the Coronavir

How the Doctors Without Borders / Médécins Sans Frontières is Providing Support During the Coronavir

Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is an international, independent, medical humanitarian organisation that delivers emergency aid to people affected by armed conflict, epidemics, pandemics, natural disasters and exclusion from healthcare. We offer assistance to people based on need and irrespective of race, religion, gender or political affiliation. We provide medical care to help people survive catastrophic situations, where communities and health structures may be overwhelmed. Our core work is providing emergency medical assistance in situations of armed conflict.  


Our medical teams act fast to save people’s lives in conflict zones, natural disasters and epidemics. We go where we are needed most. We are a global movement with 30,000 staff across 65 countries. 

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How the Doctors Without Borders / Médécins Sans Frontières is Providing Support During the Coronavir

How the Doctors Without Borders / Médécins Sans Frontières is Providing Support During the Coronavir

How the Doctors Without Borders / Médécins Sans Frontières is Providing Support During the Coronavir

Our emergency teams are experts at fighting disease outbreaks. With your support, we can help save the lives of people battling COVID-19.


Right now, Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) is providing urgently needed medical care and support in more than 70 countries to counter the new coronavirus disease.   Our teams are also gearing up to confront potential outbreaks in the hundreds of areas we were already working before the pandemic struck.


  • We are deploying medics, sending supplies and applying nearly 50 years of experience fighting epidemics to protect the most vulnerable and save lives.
  • Our emergency medical teams are working alongside local healthcare staff on the frontlines of the fight against COVID-19.
  • From war-torn Syria and Yemen to vast refugee camps in South Sudan and Bangladesh, we’re doing all we can to fight the coronavirus pandemic and to keep existing projects running.
  • We're setting up life-saving infection control measures that will protect patients and keep frontline staff safe and healthy.
  • Our logistics teams are delivering the tools to beat COVID-19, from protective clothing to state-of-the-art mobile hospitals

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