Vaccines save millions of lives annually
Each Spring GFWC Wewahitchka Woman’s Club members Advocate to Vaccinate. Shot@Life advocates across the United States speak out to increase access to vaccines for children and people around the world. This year advocates came together to urge U.S. policymakers to fund investments in global vaccine programs.
Every year vaccines save more than four million lives. Yet every 20 seconds, a child still dies from an infectious disease that could have been prevented by a vaccine. This is unacceptable. We must protect progress made with immunizations, strengthen health systems, and ensure people everywhere have access to lifesaving vaccines for diseases like polio, measles, pneumonia, rotavirus, and COVID-19.
What can you do? Ask Congress to fully fund FY 2024 vaccination programs that save lives. and serve U.S. interests. Send an email to your US senator and US representative.
The Wewahitchka Woman’s Club meetings are the second Tuesday of the month at 5:30 p.m. CT at the Wewahitchka Senior Citizens Building. Join us to learn more about how you can be a part of an 87-year-old club and as a volunteer, can make a positive difference in the community. Contact us at gfwcwewawomansclub@gmail.com.
The GFWC Wewahitchka Woman’s Club is a non-profit, 501c (3) volunteer charity organization whose purpose is to promote and provide civic, educational, and charitable activities that enrich the lives, and the environment in the service area of Wewahitchka.
Meet the Editor
David Adlerstein, The Apalachicola Times’ digital editor, started with the news outlet in January 2002 as a reporter.
Prior to then, David Adlerstein began as a newspaperman with a small Boston weekly, after graduating magna cum laude from Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts. He later edited the weekly Bellville Times, and as business reporter for the daily Marion Star, both not far from his hometown of Columbus, Ohio.
In 1995, he moved to South Florida, and worked as a business reporter and editor of Medical Business newspaper. In Jan. 2002, he began with the Apalachicola Times, first as reporter and later as editor, and in Oct. 2020, also began editing the Port St. Joe Star.