Giving Every Child a Shot@Life
Summary
I was very proud to be asked to be a Global Advocate for the United Nations Foundations Shot@Life campaign, a movement which aims to save the lives of over 21,000 children under five, who die every day from diseases that are entirely preventable by vaccines. Through our Geddes Philanthropic Trust and my association over the past 20 years with the prevention of child abuse and neglect, it was an easy segue to embrace the values, and to make a commitment to advance Every Woman Every Child, an unprecedented global movement, spearheaded by U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, to mobilize and intensify global action to improve the health of women and children around the world. If at all possible, Ive been even more acutely aware of the miracle of new life over the past couple of years, during which I have been photographing pregnant women for my latest project my Pregnancy - A Womans Story (a new magazine launched this week- available in Destination Maternity stores across the United States and Canada). Each issue of the magazine contains the stories of nine courageous women from all walks of life, who share their own unique experience of pregnancy, childbirth and beyond. This resonated so much with my own personal philosophy, my work and my commitment, I could see that by lending my voice to Shot@Life, I could join to protect children worldwide by helping to provide vaccines where they are most needed.