| Cuba Update 30 September 2020
Sign the Nobel Peace Prize petition here
Dear friend,
I’m sure you agree that the Cuban doctors, nurses and technicians working around the world to fight COVID-19 deserve our gratitude and respect.
If so, then please sign our open letter to the Nobel Prize Committee below. We are asking them to award the 2021 Peace Prize to the thousands of inspirational Cuban volunteers who make up the Henry Reeve International Medical Brigade which has saved more than 90,000 lives in 45 countries since 2005.
Please join us and show your appreciation for what they do by adding your name to the letter below.
| To the Nobel Peace Prize Committee:
As the world faces a global health crisis, thousands of Cuban doctors, nurses and technicians have responded to overseas requests for help by volunteering as part of the island’s Henry Reeve International Medical Brigade. From Jamaica to Italy and Angola to Indonesia, more than 3,700 Cuban medics have supported health workers in 39 countries in their fight against COVID-19.
“We were shipwrecked and you succour us without asking us our name or origin. After months of mourning, anguish and doubts, now we see the light.” These were the moving words of Stefania Bonaldi, mayor of Crema, as she said farewell to the Cuban medics who helped treat coronavirus in Lombardy, one of the worst-affected provinces in Italy.
For their selfless work providing humanitarianism and hope to people across the globe, we are asking you to award them the Nobel Peace Prize in 2021.
The key principles of the brigade are health, peace, humanitarianism and solidarity, and since its formation in 2005, Cuban health workers have provided relief in emergencies regardless of politics or borders, treating almost four million people in 45 countries. Most notable recent examples include the doctors who worked in Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia during the Ebola outbreak in 2014.
In the last fifteen years, 13,500 members of the Henry Reeve International Brigade have saved 93,000 lives during natural disasters and health emergencies. We believe that their inspirational internationalism deserves recognition. |
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Thank you for your support.
The Cuba Solidarity Campaign team |
