Rotary International Foundation Update and Polio Plus Update

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Rotary International Foundation Update and Polio
Plus Update

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Foundation Mission

• The mission of The Rotary Foundation is to
  enable Rotarians to advance world understanding,
  goodwill, and peace through the improvement of
  health, the support of education, and the
  alleviation of poverty. The Foundation is a
  not-for-profit corporation supported solely by
  voluntary contributions from Rotarians and
  friends of the Foundation who share its vision of
  a better world.

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History

• In 1917, RI President Arch C. Klumph proposed
  that an endowment be set up for the purpose of
  doing good in the world. In 1928, when the
  endowment fund had grown to more than US5,000,
  it was renamed The Rotary Foundation, and it
  became a distinct entity within Rotary
  International.

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History

• Two years later, the Foundation made its first
  grant of 500 to the International Society for
  Crippled Children.
• After Rotarys founder, Paul P. Harris, died in
  1947, contributions began pouring into Rotary
  International, and the Paul Harris Memorial Fund
  was created to build the Foundation.

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History

• Since the first donation of 26.50 in 1917, it
  has received contributions totalling more than 1
  billion. More than 70 million was donated in
  2003-04 alone. To date, more than one million
  individuals have been recognized as Paul Harris
  Fellows people who have given 1,000 to the
  Annual Programs Fund or have had that amount
  contributed in their name.

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Foundation Programs

• In 1947 the first Foundation program the
  forerunner of Rotary Foundation Ambassadorial
  Scholarships was established.
• In 1965-66, three new programs were launched
  Group Study Exchange , Awards for Technical
  Training, and Grants for Activities in Keeping
  with the Objective of The Rotary Foundation,
  which was later called Matching Grants .

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Foundation Programs

• The Health, Hunger and Humanity (3-H) Grants
  program was launched in 1978.
• PolioPlus was announced in 1984-85.
• The first peace forums were held in 1987-88,
  leading to the Foundation's peace and conflict
  studies programs .

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Fundraising

• Rotarians are encouraged to support the
  Foundation on the basis

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Polio Plus

• The first 3-H grant in 1979 funded a five-year
  effort to immunize six million children against
  polio in the Philippines, setting the stage for
  Rotary's work in eradicating the disease.
• The PolioPlus program was launched in 1985, with
  an initial goal of immunizing every child in the
  world against the disease.

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Polio is

• A crippling and potentially fatal infectious
  disease, polio (poliomyelitis) still strikes
  children mainly under the age of five in
  countries in Asia, Africa, and the Middle East.
• Polio can cause paralysis and sometimes death. 
  Because there is no cure for polio, the best
  protection is prevention. For as little as
  US0.60 worth of vaccine, a child can be
  protected against this crippling disease for
  life.   
• It can cause paralysis within hours, and polio
  paralysis is almost always irreversible. 
• In the most severe cases, polio attacks the motor
  neurons of the brain stem, causing breathing
  difficulty or even death.
• Historically, polio has been the worlds greatest
  cause of disability.

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Polio Plus

• After 25 years of hard work, Rotary and its
  partners WHO, the CDC and UNICEF are on the brink
  of eradicating this tenacious disease, but a
  strong push is needed now to root it out once and
  for all.
• Most recently, the 2007 Council endorsed and
  affirmed the eradication of polio as a goal of
  the highest order for Rotary and resolved that no
  other corporate project should be adopted until
  the worldwide eradication of the wild poliovirus
  is certified.

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Polio Plus Progress

• In 1985 350,000 polio cases in 125 countries.
• Today there are only four endemic countries, the
  lowest in history, India, Pakistan, Nigeria and
  Afghanistan.
• If polio isnt eradicated, the world will
  continue to live under the threat of the disease.
  More than 10 million children will be paralyzed
  in the next 40 years if the world fails to
  capitalize on its US5 billion global investment
  in eradication.

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Rotarys Impact

• Rotarys financial contributions to the global
  polio eradication effort will reach nearly US1.2
  billion by the time the world is certified
  polio-free. 
• Rotarys leadership, beginning in 1985, inspired
  the World Health Assembly to pass a resolution to
  eradicate polio, which paved the way for the
  formation of the Global Polio Eradication
  Initiative in 1988. 
• Thousands of Rotarians around the world have
  volunteered during National Immunization Days to
  immunize children. 
• The PolioPlus program helps Rotary fund
  operational costs, such as transportation,
  vaccine delivery, social mobilization, and
  training of health workers, and support
  surveillance activities.

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Methodology

•  Four key strategies for stopping poliovirus
  transmission
• Routine immunization
• National Immunization Days
• Surveillance
• Targeted mop-up campaigns

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Challenges to polio eradication

• Health experts agree that these primary
  challenges must be overcome in order to reach the
  goal of polio eradication  
• Halting the spread of the poliovirus in the four
  remaining endemic countries (Afghanistan, India,
  Nigeria, and Pakistan), which continue to export
  it to polio-free areas  
• Curbing the intense spread of the poliovirus in
  northern Nigeria and western Uttar Pradesh, India
  
• Rapidly stopping polio outbreaks in previously
  polio-free countries 
• Addressing low routine-immunization rates and
  surveillance gaps in polio-free areas
• Maintaining funding and political commitment to
  implement the eradication strategies

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Year to Date Statushttp//www.polioeradication.or
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Total cases YTD 2010 YTD 2009 Total 09
Globally 84 383 1606
In endemic countries 43 286 1256
In non-endemic countries 41 97 350
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Eradicating polio is feasible

• The incidence of polio has plummeted by more than
  99 percent since 1988, when Rotary International
  partnered with the WHO, the CDC and UNICEF to
  launch the Global Polio Eradication Initiative. 
• Increased efforts to reach all of Nigerias
  children under age 5 with the oral polio vaccine
  are paying off, with only two cases recorded so
  far this year, compared with 193 cases this time
  last year. 
• The program has shown that attacking one disease
  is very far from being a vertical program with
  the development of trained epidemiologists, the
  founding of 143 laboratories around the world
  doing much more than polio work and a
  surveillance system than can and is used for all
  communicable diseases.

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• As long as polio threatens even one child
  anywhere in the world, children everywhere remain
  at risk. The stakes are that high.
• Your contribution will help Rotary raise 200
  million to match 355 million in challenge grants
  received from the Bill Melinda Gates
  Foundation.
• "If we all have the fortitude to see this effort
  through to the end, then we will eradicate
  polio." - Bill Gates

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