COVID-19 Survivor Diaries

Help support Morgana and Jaco to reach more survivors.  With your support, they can continue to reach more survivors across the United States to interview, photograph and share their stories. Survivors make it real by sharing their experience and provide guidance on how people can protect themselves and their families while also giving hope.

After losing their jobs due to the effects of COVID Morgana and Jaco started COVID-19 Survivor Diaries when the virus started spreading in their home town, New York City. They have been using their savings to pay the bills and fund this project for the past five months, but they are running out of funds they need support in order to keep going. 

Together, with their cat Togo, they are personally interviewing and photographing COVID-19 survivors around the United States to help spread awareness and bring hope and encouragement to others, while documenting our shared experience of the global pandemic for history.

Morgana Wingard is a humanitarian multi-media producer who documented the Ebola outbreak in Liberia in 2014 extensively. That experience working with survivors led her to start this project. There she learned that survivors' stories can provide vital health information, dispel myths, offer truths, reduce stigma, and educate through the voices of people that communities know and trust.