Vaccination Superheroes

The people who get vaccines out to remote or difficult places are absolute superheroes. So our Café Church whānau decided to make a superhero cape. 

The congregation was invited to pledge to Get one. Give one. by writing their names and pledge amounts on ribbons and fastening them to the cape. Those that were there on Sunday pledged 35 vaccines, or $350, and the cape will be around for a little while longer to encourage people who weren't there on Sunday to add to it. 

We take access to vaccines for granted, but our neighbours in the developing world aren’t so fortunate.

Photo credits: UNICEF, Kiran Panday. Porters and a local health official carry UNICEF-provided vaccines on difficult terrains on the way to a measles, rubella and polio vaccination campaign to be conducted at Barpak Village Development Committee (VDC) health post in Gorkha District, the epicentre of the April 25 earthquake.

Photo credits: UNICEF “The Vaccine Journey”. A 4-year old Rayana is waiting for the polio vaccine. What does it take to get the vaccine to the most remote corners of the earth in time to save her and millions of children like her from life-long paralysis?

For more information and promotional materials, see our Get one. Give one. page.