The Archewell Foundation Impact Report
Responding to Humanitarian Crises
At The Archewell Foundation (AWF), our approach to humanitarianism is rooted in addressing both the immediate and long-term needs of communities around the globe. While no two communities are the same, we often strive for the same things: safety, security, and health for ourselves and our loved ones.
Since our founding, the world has faced numerous generational humanitarian crises. In response, we have invested in organizations supporting families in need and critical priorities like global vaccine equity, refugee relocation, and the protection of people during conflict.
Soon after the COVID-19 pandemic hit, AWF took a lead role in supporting equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines, tests, and treatments around the world – with a strong focus on vaccine access.
As part of this work, we invested in The People’s Vaccine Alliance, a coalition of over 100 organizations, health experts, economists, Heads of States, faith leaders and activists working to ensure everyone across the world has access to COVID-19 vaccines, tests, and treatments.
Our contribution went towards advocacy campaigns for fair vaccine access in low and middle-income countries supported by the Alliance including Senegal, Kenya, Nigeria, Uganda, DRC, South Africa, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, India, Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, UK, The Netherlands and the US where outreach continues.
But we didn’t stop there. In partnership with Global Citizen, an international education and advocacy organization working to catalyze the movement to end extreme poverty and promote social justice, AWF helped lead a worldwide effort to equitably distribute COVID-19 vaccines to the global population.
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex served as Campaign Chairs of Global Citizen’s VAX LIVE: The Concert to Reunite the World, which mobilized hundreds of millions in funds for the ACT-Accelerator and COVAX, the vaccine sharing program co-led by the World Health Organization.
Through our combined work, the partnership has focused on achieving vaccine equity, supporting vaccine dose sharing, reducing COVID-19 misinformation, and improving public-private collaboration.
Our advocacy, which helped garner public support as well as the support of private companies, helped procure 12.66 million COVID-19 vaccine doses globally.
- The Archewell Foundation’s unwavering commitment to social change and work to protect and advance equity, justice and human rights is truly inspiring.
Hugh Evans, CEO of Global Citizen