Many organisations helped push the eradication resolution through the World Health Assembly, but the one you wouldn’t expect is Rotary International. Rotary is a service organization with 1.2 million members in almost every country in the world, including more than 40,000 in Great Britain and Ireland.
Rotarians pledge to put service above self, their motto, but they have no specific global health mandate. They are not polio experts. They are regular people who go to work and spend time with their families. For three decades, they have also spent time advocating for polio eradication, raising money to support vaccination, and giving kids polio drops all over the world.
Other partners include the Centres for Disease Control, UNICEF, and the World Health Organization. We rely on them to excel at their jobs. But that is not enough. We also need people whose jobs have nothing to do with the health of poor people to act. That is public will.”
The eradicate Polio is a massive international project involving Rotarians throughout the world and involves Bill Gates, Rotarian and Head of Microsoft, who has contributed millions of Dollars.
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more This page will provide a brief history and the geography of the Towns in East Midlands Rotary and links to Rotary Clubs in those towns.
more Membership is the lifeblood of the Rotary family. Without active and engaged members we would be unable to deliver the service in our programme and fulfil our overarching motto of Service above Self.
more Rotary was born in Chicago on 23rd February 1905. The Founding President was Rotarian Paul Harris.
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