The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), Religions for Peace, the Joint Learning Initiative on Faith and Local Communities (JLI), held a Regional meeting with Actors of Faith – in which the Latin American and Caribbean Episcopal Council (Celam) has also participated –, in order to seek to accelerate immunization against covid-19 in Latin America and the Caribbean.
The global Covid-19 pandemic caused scientists to develop vaccines to safeguard people’s lives, mitigating the transmission of this disease. Likewise, accessing these became a challenge for those who distributed them. Three years after starting the application of the vaccine, There are still sectors of the population that have not been able to access it.
In this context, the event that took place from February 27 to 29, in Panama City and which had the collaboration of Arigatou and the Global Network of Religions for Children (GNRC), is part of a process that seeks to develop a shared understanding of the Faith and Positive Change for Children (FPCC) Initiative, Families and Communities as a platform for participation and also a search for alliances with actors of faith, focused on improving the lives of children, girls, their families and communities.
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Projection of actions to follow
This is how the organizers of the event, of which the Celam Center for Pastoral Action Programs and Networks (Ceprap) is a part, have highlighted that, although there are many places in Latin America and the Caribbean where boys and girls are immunized, There are still areas where there is no access to vaccines. This was precisely the great challenge that brought them together to analyze and look for strategies that deal with this situation.
With the purpose of improving vaccination coverage and improving the quality of life of boys and girls, families and communities, the organizing entities of this initiative, at the end of their meeting, raised the commitments that will help mitigate this problem through strategiesa in the LAC population.
Among them: Maintain coordination with State entities, articulate as a network, seek spaces for communion and exchange of experiences, develop campaigns to promote the importance of vaccines, generate efforts to guarantee universal access to vaccines, work on the myths and fundamentalisms that there is against the vaccine, manage more resources, establish training experiences and spaces for conversations, continue working on mapping actors of faith.
It is noteworthy that the dynamics of this space were illuminated by reflection and topics that helped understand and show a more accurate panorama of the state of immunization in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). The agenda was marked by a variety of topics presented, such as: Regional perspective of immunization in LAC; myths about vaccines; a panel: What is FPCC? – history, background and milestones; findings and learnings from national consultations and regional Faith Actors mapping; challenges of accelerating vaccination in LAC; alliances with Actors of Faith and the processes of Social Change, among others.
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2024-03-12 03:32:07
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