Teamwork came to the fore when all the 68 Rotary clubs of D 3231 participated in a mega car rally to mark World Polio Day on Oct 24. DG K Jawarilal Jain led from the front as over 1,000 cars took part in the event covering Tiruvannamalai,
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With just 11 confirmed polio cases so far in 2017, the world is on the brink of eradicating polio, a vaccine-preventable disease that once paralysed hundreds of thousands of children each year. To recognise this historic progress, Rotary clubs worldwide hosted events in conjunction
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The road to eradicating polio has been a long and difficult one, with Rotary leading the fight since 1985. Going from nearly 350,000 cases in 1988 to just 10 so far this year has required time, money, dedication and
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Rotary District 3291, in association with D 5240 (USA), organised an International Polio Summit — Life after Polio — at Kolkata. The event, chaired by Rotary International PolioPlus Committee Chair Michael McGovern, deliberated on topics such as Rotary’s efforts in eradicating the disease in the remaining three countries,
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A progress report on polio eradication We all know that Global Polio Eradication was championed by the Rotary International. Rotary therefore became a member of the quartet partnership of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative — World Health Organisation (WHO), Rotary,
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It was both a privilege and an honour for Diana and Danelle Wilson to first tour and then take part in a National Immunisation
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The Rotarians of RC Katwa, D 3240, have successfully immunised 95 per cent of the children of Katwa in Bardhaman district of West Bengal in the last NID. “It was a huge challenge. We had to break stiff resistance from a section of the people in a
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Rotary Club of Ambala hosted the World Polio Day celebrations for District 3080. A cycle rally with participation
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Over 6,000 school students created a mega human image of ‘Polio Free India’ at the Hindu College,
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When was the last time there was polio in Europe? If you guessed 2002, the year the region was certified polio-free, you were wrong. The last time polio affected a child in Europe was last summer. In 2015, two Ukrainian children were diagnosed with paralytic polio, and,
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This year, a group of 106 volunteers from Great Britain and Ireland, the largest to have ever travelled, headed to India to meet up with other Rotary International members from 17 countries including Belgium, Luxemburg, USA and Japan to carry out the immunisation of children across the
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