Showing posts with label Pakistan. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pakistan. Show all posts

Saturday, January 5, 2013

All Rotarians - spread the news

Here is an article published today in Time magazine entitled:

The Final Battle Against Polio?

It comments on the recent attacks on volunteers working in Pakistan by stating:

"Using children as viral suicide bombers this way is a new — and grotesque — form of bio-terrorism, and the world, for now at least, is not standing idly by. After the December killings, Pakistani officials pledged to continue with the country’s plans to deploy 250,000 health care workers to vaccinate 35 million children this year. The governments of Nigeria and Afghanistan have similarly vowed to see the eradication drive through to its end, as have the U.N. and the other institutions involved in the battle. The Islamic Development Bank has put fresh money behind the  push, donating $227 million to the vaccine program in Pakistan in particular. This is on top of the billions already provided by Rotary and the Gates Foundation alone."
 
Please share with your own networks.

Friday, May 25, 2012

The fight is on to completely eliminate polio from the planet

Rotary is continuing the fight against polio and the media need to spread the word.
Rotarians - tell your other Rotarian friends and tell your community.
We are 'this close' to stamping out polio and need a concerted effort to finish the job!


The world needs to know!

Thursday, April 19, 2012

Coca Cola supports Rotary in Pakistan

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On 7 April, in honor of World Health Day, a team of Rotarians, Rotary partners, and employees from Coca-Cola Beverages Pakistan joined forces to pick up garbage and conduct a cleanup campaign in Union Council 4, Gadap Town, Pakistan.

Gadap Town is one of Karachi’s high risk areas for the wild polio virus, and was chosen for the cleanup campaign because environmental samples have tested positive for the virus since 2009. Union Council 4 is the most populous of Gadap Town’s eight Union Councils, with a population of 450,000.

RI’s Pakistan PolioPlus Committee and Coca-Cola Pakistan are joining forces to build awareness for Rotary’s polio eradication campaign and emphasize the importance of polio immunizations nationwide.