Club backs vaccines during World Immunization Week
The GFWC Wewahitchka Woman’s Club proudly kicked off World Immunization Week by joining efforts with Shot@Life, a United Nations Foundation campaign dedicated to ensuring all children have access to lifesaving vaccines.
As passionate advocates for global health, the club is raising awareness and encouraging action in support of vaccine equity worldwide.
This year, our advocacy efforts are more crucial than ever. With the final days of Advocate to Vaccinate upon us, we are calling on all GFWC members to raise their voices for global immunization funding.
Vaccines are one of the most effective and cost-efficient tools in global health. Just $5 – the price of a coffee – can protect a child for life against measles, one of the most contagious and deadly preventable diseases. In 2024, measles cases continued to surge due to the fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic, which disrupted routine vaccination programs in many low-income countries. Tragically, more than 136,000 people, mostly unvaccinated children, die from measles every year.
Shot@Life partners with organizations like UNICEF, the World Health Organization, and Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, working to deliver vaccines to communities where they are needed most. GFWC clubs across the country are part of this mission, ensuring that every child, no matter where they are born, has a shot at life.
Join Champions in all 50 states by calling your three congressional offices – your House representative and both senators – to urge them to protect federal funding for global immunization programs, which are essential to preventing deadly disease outbreaks.
Making these calls is simple and impactful. Use Shot@Life’s call-in tool which provides instructions, a script, and automatically connects you with your legislators; no phone number searching required.
As a proud affiliate of Shot@Life, GFWC continues to support global health through education, service, and advocacy. Together, we can be a voice for the voiceless and a force for good—ensuring that no child dies from a disease that can be prevented with a simple vaccine.
We thank all GFWC members and you, for being champions of change and defenders of children’s health.
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.