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Welcome to 'Rotary Day - Thanks for Life', a project involving the clubs and members of Rotary International in Great Britain & Ireland (RIBI), to highlight the humanitarian work of Rotarians with a number one aim of helping to eradicate polio throughout the world.
As well as raising awareness, the first phase of the project, in the 12 months to April 2010, raised over £1 million, involved thousands of schools around the country and most of the 1,850 Rotary clubs across RIBI. An amazing start!
The second phase of the project aims to build on that success - it starts now and will culminate in thousands of events and activities on and around Rotary Day - February 23rd 2011. More information will follow on these pages over the coming weeks but, for now, please browse these web pages and see some of the highlights of last year's activities.
Amanda Watkin
District Governor Elect - District 1260
Thanks for Life Communications Co-ordinator.
Click on the picture below to view the BBC News Thanks for Life interview with Gautam Lewis (21 February 2010)
Click here to hear Gautam Lewis's Radio 5 Live interview.
Thanks for Life / End Polio Now video now available on YouTube. (12 minutes)
The final push to end polio in India. This documentary, fronted by Konnie Huq (BBC and Blue Peter presenter), gives the background to Rotary's campaign to rid the world of polio and describes the November 2009 sub-national immunisation days in India, at which 86 Rotarians from RIBI helped Indian volunteers to vaccinate 67 million children in just 2 days. Click here for part 1 and here for part 2.
If you would like a DVD of the video please contact your local Rotary club.
Click here to search for the club nearest your town.
For details about this project - and for resources for schools, parents, businesses and Rotarians - please follow the links on the left.
This website is continually being developed so please check back regularly. Click here to see what's been added recently.
The posters on this screen are available for downloading here.
Many more resources are available at Past RI President Frank Devlyn's Amigos' End Polio Now website - well worth investigating.
We need your help to wipe out polio, and there are many ways in which you can help.
For instance - Click on the 4th plinth mp3 recording in the Related Documents section on the right of this screen to hear a radio interview with Rotarian Jasmine Morris publicising the project from the top of a plinth in Trafalgar Square, or click here to watch Jasmine on the plinth.
And - why not watch The Last Hurdle
American Rotarians join their Indian colleagues for a Sub-National Immunisation Day, and get a close-up look at the battle to eradicate polio in India. (From Rotary Video Magazine, issue 2.2)
...and The Final Inch
The Final Inch, a 38-minute film that chronicles the challenges health organizations and government face during the final stages of polio eradication ... Commissioned by the philanthropic division of Google, the film was nominated for an Academy Award in the documentary short subject category.
Director and producer Irene Taylor Brodsky captured workers immunising children in the poorest slums of India and Pakistan in 2007. In several scenes Rotarians were filmed working during a National Immunisation Day on 22 April. Led by M.S. Jain, past governor of District 3100, NID volunteers administer polio vaccination drops to children in Meerut Samrat, Uttar Pradesh, India. (Rotary International News -- 31 March 2009)
...and read the Polio story in pictures
