'One World: Together At Home’ Raised Almost $128 Million in Response to the COVID-19 Crisis

The COVID-19 Solidarity Response Fund

The COVID-19 Solidarity Response Fund enables the tracking and containment of the spread of the coronavirus, ensuring patients and frontline workers get the resources they need, while supporting and accelerating efforts to develop vaccines, tests, and treatments. The incredible generosity shown to the COVID-19 Solidarity Response Fund will help the World Health Organization (WHO), UNICEF, CEPI, and partners accelerate their life-saving work. The One World: Together At Home campaign has raised commitments valued at $55.1 million in support of the COVID-19 Solidarity Response Fund.

Regional and Local Response

Regional and local organizations around the world are stepping up and shifting their efforts to address the particular challenges brought up by COVID-19. Food banks are providing meals to millions of families whose children are usually fed at school, shelters and community organizations are ensuring housing is safe and secure, and financial institutions are offering loans and assistance to those finding themselves without work. Thanks to the work of the organizations listed below, as well as many others, these efforts continue to be supported. The One World: Together at Home campaign has raised commitments valued at $72.8 million in support of these regional and local efforts worldwide.

One World: Together At Home presented a balanced combination of government statements, health-related visions and remarks, as well as strong financial commitments from the private sector. Key moments in One World: Together At Home are summarized below.

Global Citizen’s activities were strongly supported by the United Nations Secretary-General, António Guterres, who used this opportunity to call for unity and a global ceasefire in order to focus on the virus, while saluting the bravery of health care heroes and looking forward to
"rebuild[ing] a fairer world as united Global Citizens and United Nations."

UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed also thanked Global Citizens for the solidarity shown in supporting health workers and called for support on the race to find a vaccine.

"COVID-19 anywhere is a threat everywhere," she said.

President of the UN General Assembly, Tijjani Muhammad-Bande, shared a message of solidarity and support with frontline workers on behalf of all representing governments, too,

"We are playing our part as Global Citizens, by staying together at home," Muhammad-Bande said.

Director-General of the World Health Organization, Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, offered a silver lining in this crisis, saying it gives us the opportunity "to put aside our differences, to break down barriers, [and] to see and seek the best in each other."

Two of the world’s most influential philanthropists, and strong supporters of vaccine development, Bill and Melinda Gates, expressed hope that a vaccine will soon be ready for everyone in the world, highlighting that "our response to this won’t be effective unless it’s equitable."

In that context, Dr. Seth Berkley, the CEO of Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, presented Gavi’s work, which protects half of the world’s children from vaccine-preventable diseases and has allocated $29 million to some of the world’s poorest countries so that they are able to purchase emergency protective equipment. Actors Connie Britton, Samuel L. Jackson, and Henry Golding applauded the impressive work Gavi is doing during this crisis, highlighting that the organization will be instrumental in distributing an eventual COVID-19 vaccine to anyone who needs it.

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