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Rotary marks progress in drive to eradicate polio
Despite economic challenges, donations exceed expectations
Funding gap for 2009-2010 is US$345 million
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10 August 2009- Rick Debe thePolio Plus Chair for district 6270 challenged our club to $1000/yr for 3 years to this effort. Dennis Swetlik said he would kick off the Two Rivers Rotary commitment to the Polio Plus effort by contributing $500 per year (3 years) toward the project and challenged his fellow Rotarians to give generously to the cause. For a contribution form, click here.
23 June 2009– ... Rotary International today announced that it has raised  US$90.7 million toward its US$200 Million Challenge, a fundraising effort supporting crucial polio eradication activities. Rotary Foundation Trustee Chair Jonathan Majiyagbe announced the new figure ....“I am extremely grateful and proud to be a part of such an impressive alliance,” said Farrow.” I perhaps am more motivated than most people because I had polio myself when I was nine, and .... I would love to see the day when no more children have it.”.... The funds announced today will be used to match a US$350 million challenge grant recently awarded to Rotary by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation – a funding agreement that will provide US$555 million to the global health initiative within the next three years. .... Since 1985, when polio paralyzed more than 350,000 children in 125 countries every year, ending polio has been Rotary’s top philanthropic goal.  Since then, polio cases have been slashed by 99 percent worldwide, with fewer than 2,000 in 2008, and just four countries remain polio-endemic: Afghanistan, India, Nigeria, and Pakistan..... Rotary has contributed more than US$800 million and countless volunteer hours to the protection of more than two billion children in 122 countries.  Yet the Initiative currently faces a funding gap for 2009-2010 of US$345 million. .... “We hope that the commitment from the private sector will challenge other donors to step up and make sure we have the resources needed to eradicate polio, ....” Read more. For a contribution form, click here.

 

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