Moms Clean Air Force’s national leadership is gaining international attention.
The BreatheLife campaign, which is led by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Climate and Clean Air Coalition (CCAC), has awarded our Director and Co-Founder, Dominique Browning, the “BreatheLife Voice” honor. As a BreatheLife Voice, Dominique joins a global contingent of changemakers who use their platforms to call attention to the dangers of air pollution—and drive solutions.
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Dominique is in good company. Her fellow BreatheLife Voices include Ms. Rosamund Adoo-Kissi-Debrah CBE (clean air activist and Founder of the Ella Roberta Foundation), Rachel Chebet Ruto (First Lady of Kenya), and Nuseir Yassin (Nas Daily), just to name a few. They were formally recognized at the WHO’s Second Global Conference on Air Pollution and Health in Cartagena, Colombia, where our Associate Vice President, Isabel González Whitaker, spoke on a panel about our right to breathe clean air.
“I am honored to join such an impressive group of fellow fighters in being selected as a BreatheLife Voice,” says Dominique. “Everyone in the world is impacted by our warming climate and its attendant extreme weather conditions. Everyone in the world is impacted by the petrochemicals and plastics crises we are facing.”
Dominique underscores the outsize threat that dirty air poses to infants and children: “Their still-developing hearts, lungs, brains, and endocrine systems are uniquely vulnerable to pollution. Every single day, Moms Clean Air Force members take action to raise the alarm and to support initiatives to stop air, climate, and toxic chemical pollution. As parents, grandparents, caregivers, friends—simply as human beings—we have no choice, even when the odds are against us, but to continue the fight for a healthier world for all of our children.”
BreatheLife Voice Rosamund Adoo-Kissi-Debrah CBE, who became a clean air advocate after her nine-year-old daughter, Ella, died in 2013 from a severe form of asthma, says, “I am delighted to have Dominique join me working with the World Health Organisation (WHO). Nothing is more important than protecting children’s health—and I know Dominique shares my passion and commitment to try and stop children from dying from air pollution. She is a force of nature, and I think it will be incredibly powerful to unite more parents with the BreatheLife campaign. Every child, no matter where they live, how much money they have or the colour of their skin, has the right to breathe clean, safe air.”
Rosamund’s daughter is now the first person in the world to have air pollution listed as a cause of death on her death certificate. Rosamund says, “We owe it to all the children in the world to continue to fight to make air pollution a thing of the past and clean air their future.”
The BreatheLife campaign is a coordinated effort that brings together global leaders to raise international awareness and activate a response on air pollution, climate change, and global health.
“The BreatheLife campaign aims to drive actions towards clean air and has the essential task of raising awareness about the dangers of breathing in contaminated air across the globe,” says Dr. Maria Neira, Director of Environment, Climate Change, and Health at WHO. “By bridging the gaps between different stakeholders, we hope to engage a global audience so that we may all work together to improve our Earth’s air quality for all. Ms. Browning will be instrumental in that effort, especially on behalf of our globe’s children.”
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