• WHERE: Southern Israel and Gaza
• WHEN: ASAP
• WHAT: Women’s health relief initiative to support women in both regions of Southern Israel and Gaza
• WHY: Women and children are innocent

Regardless of your political stance on the current violence raging in Southern Israel and Gaza, I think we can all agree that women and children should be safe. Women and children everywhere deserve to know that they can play, sleep, and deliver their babies in safety.

However, these simple truths that we take for granted in our part of the world are currently not a reality for the women and children in this volatile region in the last weeks. Humanitarian aid organizations all too often forget the needs of women and children in times of war; in spite of the fact that 80% of the world’s people displaced due to war are in fact women and children. The critical measures that must be taken to safeguard their lives are simple: clean birth kits, clean water, and immunizations. By providing emergency services and support Circle of Health International (COHI) is improving the health status of women and children by insisting that their needs matter.

This local organization is doing its part to see beyond politics in serving both populations of innocents in this conflict, and they need your help. Join them in changing the conversation about the Mid-East to focus on the positive things coming out of this region, and the women and children who are depending on us to act.

Women and their health care providers in the Mid-East are asking for our help; it is our responsibility to assist them. We hope that you will join us in support of this effort. If there is any further information you would like from COHI at this time, please do not hesitate to contact us.

To quote a Palestinian midwife, “We (midwives) speak the same language, regardless of our politics: women come first."

Contact

cohintl.org
info[at]cohintl.org
512-517-3220
C/O Leilani Johnson
90 Coventry Wood Road, Bolton, MA, 01740 USA