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Rootary In nternatio onal sig gns projeect partner agreeement with Sh helterBo ox By R Ryan Hyland Rotaary International News N – 30 March 2012 2
Rottary Internatio onal and ShellterBox, a graassroots disastter relief orgaanization, signned a project partner agreeement this mo onth, allowing g the two orgaanizations to colllaborate moree closely to prrovide relief and a temporary shelter to suurvivors of natuural disasters. “Prroject partner”” is a special status RI givees to groups started s or mannaged by Rottary clubs. Th he agreement will build on n the strengthss of both orgaanizations in respponding to diisasters all over the world. “Ouur Rotary frieends have alw ways been therre ready to asssist – from geenerous donnations to direect operationaal support on the ground Rotary R has alw ways been parrt of our DNA A,” said Tom Henderson, H ShelterBox S CE EO. “I feel likke we have 34,000 ShelterBox offices aro ound the worlld working to ogether to helpp those who hing when theey need us thee most.” havve lost everyth Savving lives RI General Secretary John Heewko said thee agreement will w enable Rootary club mem mbers to havee an immediaate, lifesaving g impact in co ommunities hiit by natural disaasters. “ShelterBox will bee able to ensu ure that local Rotarians R are provided an oppportunity to participate in the t distributio on of ShelterB Box containerrs,” he said. Eacch ShelterBox x typically pro ovides a tent designed to withstand w extrreme weaather conditio ons, stove, waater purificatio on kit, blankeets, tools, andd other neccessities to help a family su urvive for six months or more m after a di saster. Hennderson, a civ vil engineer and a former seaarch-and-resccue diver for tthe British Royyal Naval, fou unded ShelterrBox in 2000. Its response teams of traiined vollunteers have brought lifesaving suppliees to victims of o more than 175 disaasters in nearly 80 countriees. Mu utual goals “Foor more than 10 years, SheelterBox has given g light to over one hunndred thousannd families woorldwide in thheir darkest hour,” saidd Hewko. “Th his project paartner agreemeent representss our mutual ggoal of helpinng those in neeed. It gives R RI a forward-ffacing appproach to imm mediate disastter relief.” Notted Henderso on: “This partn nership with Rotary R Intern national is a foormal recogniition of our good work oveer the past 12 yeaars. It will hellp Rotarians get g a better un nderstanding of o what we doo. I hope Rotaarians worldw wide will see us as a coherent andd able disasterr relief organiization.” Earrlier this montth, a ShelterB Box team distrributed more than 550 tentts to communnities in Madaagascar wheree powerful cycclones left mo ore than 250,0 000 people ho omeless. Forr more inform mation:
Learn more m about Sh helterbox Learn more m about wh ho Rotary worrks with Donate now n to suppo ort the humanitarian effortss of The Rotaary Foundationn
H Historic Moments -- Roots R off Rotarry's pollio efforrts By Susan Hanf Rotaary International N News ‐‐ 18 Novemb ber 2011
Onn 29 Septemb ber 1979, Ro otarians and delegates off the Philippiine Ministryy of Health loooked on as volunteers adm ministered drops of the lifesaving Saabin polio vaaccine to chiildren in the Manila barrrio of Guadalupe Viejo. Whhen James L. Bomar Jr., then RI pressident, put th he first drops of vaccine into a childd's mouth, hee ceremonially lauunched the Ph hilippine poliomyelitis immunization effort, andd Rotary's firrst Health, H Hunger and H Humanity (3-H) Graant project was w underwaay. Bomar jo oined Enrique M. Garciaa, the countryy's minister oof health, in signing the conntract comm mitting Rotary y Internation nal and the government g oof the Philipppines to a jooint five-yearr effort to imm munize abou ut six million n children ag gainst polio at a a cost of aabout US$7660,000. In a 1993 interv view, Bomarr reminisced d about the trrip. He recallled how thee brother of oone of the chhildren he haad imm munized tug gged on his pant p leg to geet his attention, and saidd, “Thank yoou, thank youu, Rotary.” Thee success off this project set the stagee for Rotary''s top priorityy to rid the w world of pollio. As a resuult of Rotary y’s effo forts, more th han two billiion children have receiveed the oral ppolio vaccinee. Since Rotaary launchedd its PolioPlu us cam mpaign in 19 985, the num mber of polio o cases world dwide has drropped 99 peercent, and tthe virus rem mains endemic in onlly four counttries -- Afgh hanistan, Ind dia, Nigeria, and Pakistann. Forr more inform mation:
Read mo ore about polio and what you can do to o help Learn ho ow child healtth needs will be addressed d under the FFuture Vision Plan See Rotaary History an nd Archives