1. Rotary International Foundation Update and Polio Plus Update
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Rotary International Foundation Update and Polio Plus Update
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Stuart Wright

2. 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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3. 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 US$5,000, it was renamed The Rotary Foundation, and it became a distinct entity within Rotary International.
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4. History
Two years later, the Foundation made its first grant of $500 to the International Society for Crippled Children.
After Rotary’s 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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5. 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 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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6. Foundation Programs
In 1947 the first Foundation program – the forerunner of Rotary Foundation Ambassadorial Scholarships – was established.
In , 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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7. Foundation Programs
The Health, Hunger and Humanity (3-H) Grants program was launched in 1978.
PolioPlus was announced in
The first peace forums were held in , leading to the Foundation's peace and conflict studies programs .
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8. Fundraising
Rotarians are encouraged to support the Foundation on the basis:
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9. 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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10. 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 US$0.60 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 world’s greatest cause of disability.
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11. 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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12. 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 isn’t 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 US$5 billion global investment in eradication.
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13. Rotary’s Impact
Rotary’s financial contributions to the global polio eradication effort will reach nearly US$1.2 billion by the time the world is certified polio-free. 
Rotary’s 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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14. Methodology Four key strategies for stopping poliovirus transmission:
Routine immunization
National Immunization Days
Surveillance
Targeted mop-up campaigns
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15. 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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16. Year to Date Status http://www.polioeradication.org/
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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17. 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 Nigeria’s 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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18. 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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19. Questions?
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