178 days ago From Canada.com   View Archived Article

DON MILLS, CANADA - In 1985, Rotary International launched PolioPlus, with the goal of raising $120 million to immunize the developing world's children against polio for five years. Rotary's leadership subsequently inspired the World Health Assembly to pass a re ...

192 days ago From Gaston Gazette   View Archived Article

GASTON COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA - Because polio survivors don't want any child to suffer paralysis or death as a result of the disease, they are supporting the efforts of Rotary International to end polio. Through a silent auction and collection boxes placed at Western Sizzlin, T ...

202 days ago From Huffington Post   View Archived Article

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - The Global Polio Eradication Initiative was launched in 1988 by Rotary International, the World Health Organization, UNICEF and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Through the mass distribution of polio vaccines, the eradication ...

206 days ago From All Africa   View Archived Article

CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA - The President in particular thanked the members of the delegation for their participation in the efforts to eliminate polio from Ethiopia, and for Rotary International's contribution over the sixteen years. Dr. Tewodros Adhanom, Minister of Healt ...

217 days ago From This is Cornwall   View Archived Article

CORNWALL, U K - A HAYLE woman has returned from Thailand after being awarded a Rotary International Peace scholarship to attend a prestigious university in the far south east Asian country. Helen Tanner completed a three-month course at Chulalongkorn University, ...

220 days ago From Macau Daily Times   View Archived Article

MACAU - ... or the Rotary Club is very close to accomplishing its mission of eradicating polio from the world with just 154 cases so far this year reported in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Nigeria, according to Wilfrid J. Wilkinson, the Chair of the Rotary ...

224 days ago From Rotary International   View Archived Article

EVANSTON, ILLINOIS - Rotary District 5170 (California, USA) is providing safe drinking water to 800 people in Lamchoke, Thailand, a remote village 400 miles north of Bangkok, through a Rotary Foundation global grant. The US$72,000 project was completed in August through ...

231 days ago From All Africa   View Archived Article

CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA - Evanston =97 EVANSTON, Ill., September 27, 2012/ -- Rotary International plans to contribute US $75 million over three years to the Global Polio Eradication Initiative as part of a worldwide effort to close a $945 million funding gap that threatens t ...

235 days ago From Isle of Wight County Press   View Archived Article

NEWPORT, ISLE OF WIGHT - THE annual Rotary International Shoebox Appeal is being launched on the Isle of Wight next week. This year, for the first time, the shoeboxes will be going to deprived children in Moldova, where living conditions are described as some of the worst in ...

246 days ago From Daily Pioneer   View Archived Article

NEW DELHI, INDIA - The Rotary International (RI) is the biggest welfare institution which is spread over 200 countries in the world. Its social welfare activities include, among others, eradication of polio. It has done commendable works on the front, said Dr Ashok Kum ...

288 days ago From Kincardineshire Observer   View Archived Article

MONTROSE, U K - Rotary International say that after 25 years of hard work, a campaign involving themselves and their partners is on the brink of wiping out the crippling disease, but a =93strong push=94 is needed now to root it out once and for all. This is why any ...

300 days ago From All Africa   View Archived Article

CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA - And Rotary International president, Sakuji Tanaka, who arrived in Livingstone yesterday ahead of the official opening of the Rotary Institute Zone 20A conference tomorrow, said Rotarians around the world are committed to helping disadvantaged people ...

308 days ago From NorthJersey.com   View Archived Article

WOODLAND PARK, NEW JERSEY - Area Rotary Clubs are seeking four outstanding young adults to visit India for a month-long, cultural exchange trip. Sponsored by the Rotary Foundation, the Group Study Exchange team will travel throughout this part of the world from Nov. 24 through ...

311 days ago From Kokomo Perspective   View Archived Article

KOKOMO, INDIANA - While Rotary International has led the way in the private sector of eliminating case after case of polio, not much press has gotten out about Rotary's involvement. =93There are two schools of thought on that,=94 said Madru. The first school of th ...

332 days ago From Rotary International   View Archived Article

EVANSTON, ILLINOIS - Funded by a Rotary Foundation global grant, the team of four Rotarians and three other professionals also helped lay the groundwork for a clean water system, ...

345 days ago From Catalina Island News   View Archived Article

AVALON, CALIFORNIA - All of the unsold books from that event, an anticipated pallet, will be collected by the local Rotary Club and shipped to a selected developing country as part of =93Books for the World=94, a project of Rotary International. The local Rotary Club of ...

366 days ago From The News International   View Archived Article

ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN - By Syed Khalid Mahmood KARACHI: Shahid Afridi, Pakistan's former captain and one of the most popular cricketers of the world, has joined hands with Rotary International in its polio eradication campaign. Afridi has agreed to become a brand ambass ...

367 days ago From Addison County Independent   View Archived Article

MIDDLEBURY, VERMONT - By John Flowers JASON SCHNOOR PLACES two drops of the polio vaccine into the mouth of an Indian child during a Rotary International humanitarian visit in February. MIDDLEBURY =97 Jason Schnoor in February got to witness India's Taj Mahal, one of ...

381 days ago From International News Network   View Archived Article

ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN - Islamabad: Cocacola Beverage Pakistan Ltd. has extended support to Rotary International's Polio Plus Committee to aid it in the eradication of polio through awareness campaigns and have also volunteered their vans for the transportation of polio ...

389 days ago From MyCentralJersey.com   View Archived Article

SOMERVILLE, NEW JERSEY - Photo courtesy Laura DePrado Rutgers University hosted the Rotary International's Enabling Garden intitative at the Rutgers Floriculture Greenhouse. "Growing Lives One Seed at a Time," a unique garden pilot intiative in five counties th ...