Cate Blanchett is hopeful that we’ll come out of the other side of our current moment having improved: “The systems we were laboring under weren’t working for everyone before. The only opportunity in this is to fix things”
spoke with several women in the entertainment industry who are using their voices to benefit worthy causes. For more,As people in U.K. households step out on front doorsteps every Thursday at 8 p.m. to eagerly applaud, whistle and clang pots and pans in appreciation of the National Health Service,and her family raise a ruckus from their countryside home outside London, surrounded by inquiring sheep and cows.
According to recent figures by UNHCR and the World Health Organization, more than 70 million people have been forcibly displaced, of which 26 million are refugees, who are especially vulnerable to COVID-19 as 80% are sheltered outside camps, often in overcrowded communities with little access to health care.
“It’s a disaster waiting to happen,” says Blanchett. “Even if Britain gets [the coronavirus] under control, the movement of people — who are moving because they’re imperiled — means the problem is not going away, and you can have a second or third outbreak.”Further complicating relief efforts is a temporary suspension of U.S. funding to the World Health Organization, which President Donald“It’s very, very shortsighted,” seethes Blanchett.
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