Geotracking ensures fewer children are left behind By Tolu Olasoji When polio vaccinators fanned out across areas of the Republic of Congo last year to stop an outbreak, they carried a powerful new...
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More than US$2 million collected for Turkey, Syria after earthquake
Rotary members continue to provide relief a year later to those affected By Arnold R. Grahl A year after the most powerful earthquake in nearly a century devastated parts of Turkey and Syria, Rotary...
Rotary International commits US$ 14 million grant to end polio in Nigeria
Abuja, 18 January, 2024 -- World Health Organization (WHO) welcomes a new funding commitment made by Rotary International to support Nigeria in its efforts to eradicate all forms of polioviruses,...
UNEP-Rotary partnership aims to safeguard freshwater sources
A new partnership between the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and one of the world's largest service organizations, Rotary International, will work to conserve and restore freshwater...
Joint statement by WHO-UNICEF-ROTARY on World Polio Day 2023
Today, we commemorate the 2023 World Polio Day (WPD) by joining the global community to create awareness about polio eradication and urge parents to vaccinate their children. We,– the World Health...
Rotary members fly around the world to raise funds for polio eradication
By Geoffrey Johnson John Ockenfels and Peter Teahen’s Flight to End Polio took three months to circumnavigate the globe. Getting their single engine Cessna 210 off the ground took three years. The...
A warming world adds peril for a way of life
By Geoffrey Johnson For centuries, the Yörük people of southern Turkey have trekked up and down the rugged Taurus Mountains. When the hot Mediterranean summer begins to dry out the vegetation that...
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Rotary responds to earthquake that has devastated areas of Turkey and Syria
Turkey and Syria were struck by a devastating earthquake on 6 February that has killed tens of thousands of people, destroyed thousands of homes and other structures, and left people across the...
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A Rotary Community Corps eases transition for Afghan refugees
By Frank Bures In 2015, Shah knew he had to get out of Afghanistan. His family had lived in a village near the city of Jalalabad for generations. But his work for the U.S. government as a translator...
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Joint statement by WHO-UNICEF-ROTARY on World Polio Day
Afar Region, Ethiopia, 05 November 2022 – Today we commemorate the 2022 World Polio Day (WPD) to highlight progress made by the Ethiopian Ministry of Health and partners towards polio eradication,...
Global health leaders see a clear path to polio eradication
Rotary and WHO’s World Polio Day 2022 and Beyond event in Geneva, Switzerland, brought health experts together to share updates, exchange ideas By Ryan Hyland and Arnold R. Grahl Global health...
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Rotary and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation extending fundraising partnership to eradicate polio - Partnership will infuse an additional US$450 million into global polio eradication effort
EVANSTON, Ill. (October 18, 2022) – Rotary and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation are renewing their longstanding partnership to end polio, announcing a joint commitment of up to $450 million to...
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Rotary President Jennifer Jones announces US$150 million pledge toward polio eradication
By Ryan Hyland Rotary International President Jennifer Jones appeared on the main stage at the star-studded Global Citizen Festival on 24 September to highlight Rotary’s commitment to eradicating...
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Re-emergence of polio underscores the need for eradication
By Arnold R. Grahl The detection of poliovirus, and even cases of polio, in places where it hasn’t been found for years has demonstrated once again that eradicating a human disease isn’t easy,...
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Rotary members in Poland provide a safe home for Ukrainian refugees
In March, shortly after Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine, refugees began arriving at a home in Wojciechów, a town about 20 miles from the city of Lublin in eastern Poland. Janusz Milanowski, a...
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Rotary responds: support for Ukraine
The Rotary Foundation and Rotary clubs around the world have hurried to provide funds, supplies, and services to Ukrainians displaced by the war. The Rotary Foundation has raised more than $15...
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Czech and Slovak Rotary members open aid corridor into Ukraine
by Arnold R. Grahl Within a day of Russian troops entering Ukraine in February, Rotary clubs in the Czech Republic and Slovakia were using their connections to gain access to a strategic railway hub...
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European Rotaract clubs organize to help Ukrainian refugees
Within hours of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in late February 2022, Iryna Bushmina fled her home in Kyiv. Along with her sister and her three-month-old nephew, she journeyed to Vienna, Austria,...
Rotary Statement on the War against Ukraine
Rotary International and The Rotary Foundation stand with the United Nations General Assembly in expressing grave concern at "the ongoing human rights and humanitarian crisis in Ukraine, in...
World Immunization Week: Vaccines keep communities healthy
Our progress in the fight against polio shows why vaccination is important Increasing awareness about the power of vaccines and closing immunization gaps could protect millions of people worldwide...