Washington, DC, May 9 (PAHO)- The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) will be collaborating with Sony Music Latin-Iberia on the virtual concert Made In: Casa #DesdeCasaConMusica Music Festival, by providing reliable information about the pandemic COVID-19 and the response of the organization in the Region of the Americas.
This event, organized by Sony Music Latin- Iberia on Sunday May 10 at 12 pm (DC time), intends to bring music to people at home, while reinforcing and supporting messages of social distancing and prevention to help fight COVID-19. People will be invited to support PAHO’s work in the response for COVID-19, as well as learn more about the disease through the organization’s platform.
Made In: Casa #DesdeCasaConMusica Music Festival will be streamed on Sony Music Latin-Iberia’s @madeinlatino accounts through Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and its official site www.desdecasaconmusica.com.
Sony Music Latin-Iberia artists, such as Diego Torres, Fonseca, Fito Paéz, Franco De Vita, La Oreja de Vang Gogh, Lila Downs, Gerardo Ortiz, Lali, Miranda! and other personalities will join from their homes for the Made In: Casa livestream event. These acts will reaffirm the importance of staying at home right now while entertaining fans around the world with music, cooking, exercising and even giving music lessons. The complete line up of artists is available here: www.desdecasaconmusica.com.
PAHO, as the specialized Health Agency in the Americas and the Regional Office of the World Health Organization, is providing critical leadership, coordination and assistance to fight the spread of COVID-19, save lives, and protect most vulnerable peoples in all 52 countries and territories of the Americas. Around US$94.8 million are needed from now through August 2020 to support individual countries and territories in the region to scale up their readiness and response operations in order to: save lives and protect the most vulnerable individuals, including healthcare workers, and limit human-to-human transmission, including reducing secondary infections among close contacts, to slow down the spread of the disease.
