With our partners at Our Fund Foundation, the Humanity Project is making a dent in the pandemic. Obviously, a very small dent … this is a global problem requiring the efforts of millions worldwide. But yes, we have some progress to report — an issue we’re tackling to improve Covid vaccine equity in underrepresented populations.
First, we’ve been successful in setting up some vaccination events. The Pride Center, an LGBTQ agency in South Florida, injected some 600 people with Covid vaccine in April as a direct result of the Humanity Project’s efforts with the State of Florida and Broward County. With big thanks to Humanity Project Board member, Bob LaMendola, for making this important event possible! Also, we will hold another such event on May 30 at Hopewell Missionary Baptist Church in Pompano Beach, Florida and at least one other is likely in the near future. We’ll keep you posted.
In conjunction with the diverse coalition we launched in January called the Diversity Unity Coalition, the Humanity Project also has distributed nearly 1,000 Covid informational cards all around South Florida. This includes giving out the cards at community events such as food distributions — the picture above came from one such food giveaway in April. Thanks to our good friends Andrew Leone and Todd Delmay for helping with that effort.
With plenty of vaccine finally available around the U.S., our work on this issue now focuses especially on Covid vaccine education as we encourage everyone to take their turn and roll up their sleeves. As you probably know, this pandemic won’t end until we reach a level of herd immunity — and that means at least 75-80% of us must be vaccinated. We’re nowhere near that figure now. We hope you’ll do your part. Get vaccinated if you haven’t, please. And if you have, encourage your friends and family to do so. As they say, we’re all in this together.
