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Good luck to community mobilisers, influencers, leaders and health teams in Nigeria. Your role is critical for a successful response to the #COVID19 pandemic and polio outbreaks.
#VaccinesWork#EndPolio
Excellent, long-awaited news in from Afghanistan: Taliban leadership directs preparations for 2 national polio vaccination campaigns. This brings polio vaccine to all children, including some 3.3m who have been inaccessible for years. Female vaccinators to take a frontline role.
Many thanks to Jennifer E. Jones, first woman named @Rotary president-nominee for joining the #UNGA@WHO-side event & reminding us that only a joint action among global health partners and communities can help us to achieve public health goals as well as #EndPolio.
Drawing from our partnership to #endpolio, #Rotary is proud to collaborate with @gavi, a co-leader of the @covax initiative, in support of greater vaccination access.
We look forward to working together on this critical issue! #VaccinesWork#OneWorldProtected
Virtual exchanges are an engaging alternative to in-person #youthexchange, providing a unique opportunity to interact and collaborate with people from other cultures and communities online. Learn more at https://t.co/Utsev5COM6.
The #Rotary Foundation continued its unwavering support of the mission to create a polio-free world by contributing more than $151 million to eradication efforts in 2019-2020. https://t.co/HcXZGkfUfX
...distribution of resources.
Through academic training, study, and practice the Rotary Peace Centres program develops leaders who become catalysts for peace and conflict prevention and resolution in their communities and around the globe.
Conflict and violence displace millions of people each year. Half of those killed in conflict are children, and 90 percent are civilians.
Rotarians refuse to accept conflict as a way of life. Rotary projects provide training that fosters understanding and provides communities..
...with the skills to resolve conflicts.
Through our service projects, peace fellowships, and scholarships, our members are taking action to address the underlying causes of conflict, including poverty, inequality, ethnic tension, lack of access to education, and unequal
We are all potential role models and mentors for young #Rotary and @rotaract members. Elizabeth Usovicz shares how it takes our intention, not our time, to recognize and encourage their talent. https://t.co/FUmo18Wpqy
The #Rotary Club of Newlands in Cape Town, South Africa has raised more than $80,000 to provide meals for thousands of children, families, and the elderly during the #Covid19 pandemic. https://t.co/sgK0uHpPq7
The polio eradication infrastructure is playing a critical role in protecting communities from #COVID19. Find out how and join us for #WorldPolioDay on 24 October.
Take part: https://t.co/AtyhQfJ4OJ