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Rotary gives
$53.5 million to help eradicate polio
Published on 25
Jan 2018
EVANSTON, Ill. (Jan. 25, 2018) —
With
22 confirmed cases in 2017 to date, and just one case in 2018,
the world is on
the brink of eradicating polio,
a vaccine-preventable disease that once
paralyzed hundreds of thousands
of children each year.
Rotary is giving $53.5 million in
grants to support immunization
and surveillance activities led by the Global
Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI).
More than half of the funds will
support efforts to end polio in
two of the three countries where polio remains
endemic:
·
Afghanistan: $12.03 million
·
Pakistan: $19.31 million
Further funding will support efforts
to keep
10 vulnerable countries polio-free:
·
Cameroon: $1.61 million
·
Central African Republic: $428,000
·
Chad: $2.33 million
·
The Democratic Republic of Congo:
$6.48 million
·
Ethiopia: $1.82 million
·
Iraq: $2 million
·
Niger: $1.71 million
·
Somalia: $3.29 million
·
South Sudan: $835,300
·
Syria: $428,000
An
additional $731,338 will fund research to be conducted
and another $518,000 will go toward technical assistance
in
West and Central Africa.
While significant strides have been
made against the disease,
polio remains a threat in hard-to-reach and
underserved areas
and conflict zones.
Despite a historically low case count, as
long as a single child has polio,
all children are at risk,
which underscores
the need for continued funding
and political commitment to eradication.
Rotary
has committed to raising $150 million over the next three years,
yielding $450 million for polio eradication activities,
including immunization
and surveillance.
Rotary
started its polio eradication program PolioPlus in 1985, and in 1988
The
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation later became a partner.
Since the
initiative launched, the incidence of polio
has plummeted by more than 99.9
percent,
from about 350,000 cases in 1988 to just 22 confirmed cases
in 2017
(as of 25 January).
Rotary has contributed a total of more than $1.7 billion —
including matching funds from the Gates Foundation —
and countless volunteer
hours to protect more than
2.5 billion children in 122 countries from
polio.
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2018
Mount Lawley Rotaractors
First day of Camp with a visit from
our awesome Distirct governor Lindsay Dry!
Thank you to Fred Morrell from the
Rotary Club of Ballajura-Malaga
for the barbecue lunch on the fore shore at Pt
Walter
for the participants at D9455 Camp Opportunity
Rotary Club of Ascot
Rotary Club of Attadale
Rotary Club of Attadale
The Rotary Club of Attadale have used their Project Robin Hood funding
to build and
supply 150 microbat roosting boxes
to minimize the mozzie menace in Melville.
The roosting boxes, built by the Bicton Men’s Shed,
are now available at the
subsidized cost of $20 a box
for City of Melville residents.
Find out more
at
Every night, our tiny native Australian microbats
eat 40% to 50%
of their own bodyweight in insect pests
including mosquitoes,
which is up to
1,000 mozzies a night!
Because removal of trees, microbats now have fewer places
in
which are suitable for them to live and breed.
By providing roosting boxes for
microbats
we can increase their numbers and have more of them
working for us
every night,
eating mosquitoes and other insect pests.
Built by the Bicton Men's Shed,
the roosting boxes are now
available for purchase
at a subsidised rate of $20 per box
for City of Melville
residents.
For more information on how you can request
a roosting box,
please visit
cheryl@arh.org.au
New Flyers
D9455
D9455
Rotary Club of Osborne Park
Rotary Clubs of
Attadale
Fremantle
Rotary Clubs of Mandurah
Rotary Club of Rockingham
Peter Philipps for WINNING the
Australian of the Year Community Award senior division.
His leadership in putting on the Rockingham Rotary Market
is now acknowledged
and awarded
Rotary Club of Gosnells
Congratulations
to Mavis Clarke, one of our partners of Rotary,
on her award as Community
Citizen of the Year!
Well done and very deserving for all the hard work
you do
in the community with the Salvation Army.
Rotary Club of Kwinana
Past President Max Bird
Senior Citizen of the year
Rotary Club of Karrinyup
Congratulations to our club’s Youth
Director, Wayne,
and his wife Barbara who were naturalised as Australians
t at City of Joondalup’s Australia
Day celebrations!
Around the Clubs
Australia Day
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Rotary Club of Como
Rotary Club of Geraldton
Members, exchange students and
friends sizzled sausages
for the Broadwater Bay Surf Life Saving Club
Rotary Club of Gosnells
Annual Australia Day Breakfast at Pioneer Park
Rotary Club of Byford and Districts
Rotary Club of Kununurra
Getting ready to serve the
Shire Breakfast at the
— at Kununurra Visitor Centre.
João got into the spirit of Australia
Day with his morph suit
He even won the best
dressed award
Rotary Club of Kwinana
It was a busy but very satisfying day
with members and
partners serving breakfast to community members
at the City of Kwinana's annual
Australia Day ceremony.
This year the event was held at the Kwinana Adventure
Park,
which made for a very pleasant occasion for everyone
Rotary Club of Busselton Geographe Bay
Rotary Club of Rossmoyne
Rotary Clubs of
Hannans Kalgoorlie
Boulder
Kalgoorlie
Other news
Rotary Club of Cambridge
President Jeremy attending a
breakfast meeting at the Osborne Park Club
to hear author Linda Bettany
relating anecdotes from her various books.
Here Jeremy is seen with Linda
Bettany
and President Alan Cockram from Osborne Park Club
Rotary Club of Mundaring
The Rotary Club of Albany Port were
very welcoming to Júlia and Júlia
as guests with Jim and Penny
. Pictured here
with acting President Phil Bailey
, they even rolled out a Brazilian flag in
their honour.
Used for their last exchange student 8 years ago.
The girls also met guest speaker Dr Robert
Isaacs
who spoke of the positive impact Rotary had on his early life
and his
thoughts on the Australia Day debate.
Rotary Club of West Perth
Tony Delich was host this morning to Prof Byron Kakulas and did his usual sterling job
. Club member Prof Byron
Kakulas was our guest speaker
and he brought us up to date with his MD research
at the new Perron Neuroscience Research Institute
and the great milestones that
have been made
since West Perth RC sponsored the initial research.
Three wise men. Professor Byron
Kakulas with John Hollingshead
(who was instrumental in getting the research
centre up and running)
and Tony Delich as host for the day
Treemission planning for 2018
planting season and development of the program.
Colin
Arthur and Alan Briggs of West Perth Rotary Club met
with District
Governor 9455 Lyndsay Dry
to set out a strategy to make treemission
a universal
Rotary program for tree planting.
Rotary Club of Bunbury Leschenault
Past President Doug Green modelling, with extreme
excitement,
the Perth Glory shirt signed by the whole team
who came down to
play Canberra United at the weekend -
including, of course, Sam Kerr
, who
scored three goals in the 4-all draw.
The
shirt will be auctioned at the
. on 25 February.
Rotary Club of Manjimup
Rotary Club of Batavia Coast
Starting off 2018 with an exciting
visit from Magdalena,
Rotary Club Liechtenstein Eschnerberg.
She came all the
way from Liechtenstein
and found us on FB!
Rotary Club of Karrinyup
Rotarians on duty at
yesterday's Stirling Farmers Market
were
delighted to receive a visit from visiting Rotarian Orlando,
Past President of
the Rotary Club São Bernardo do Campo
in
Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Orlando is in Perth visiting his daughter Adriana
Orlando is in Perth visiting his daughter Adriana
and was pleased to catch up
with some local Rotarians
as he is very proud of being part of Rotary's philanthropic
projects
such as Childhood Education, Youth Exchange
and the End
Polio Now project
Rotary Club of Busselton Geographe Bay
Street Fair
Rotary Club of Armadale
Rotary Club of Mount Lawley
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